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PONDWEED , a popular name for Potamogeton natans, a See also:cosmopolitan aquatic plant found in ponds, lakes and ditches, with broad, more or less oblong-ovate, See also:olive-See also:green, floating leaves. The name is also applied to other See also:species of Potamogeton, one of the characteristic genera of lakes, ponds and streams all over the See also:world, but more abundant in temperate regions. It is the See also:principal genus of the natural See also:order of Monocotyledons Potamogetonaceae, and contains See also:plants with slender branched stems, and submerged and translucent, or floating and opaque, alternate or opposite leaves, often with membranous See also:united stipules. The small See also:flowers are See also:borne above the See also:water in which the See also:English is a 16th-See also:century See also:adaptation, is formed from See also:national forces. In 1789, when See also:Poland was threatened by the poing, fist, the clenched. See also:hand in which the weapon is grasped. armed intervention of See also:Russia, he was appointed See also:commander of (See See also:DAGGER.) the See also:Ukraine See also:division at Braclaw on See also:Bug. End of Article: PONDWEEDAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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