ALIQUOT PART. One quantity or number is said to be an A. P. of another, when it is contained in this other an exact number of times without remainder. Thus 2, 24, 4, and 5 are A. parts of 20, being contained in it 10, 8, 5, and 4 times. The consideration of A. parts occurs chiefly in the rule of Practice. Suppose we have to find the price of a number of articles at Cld. : since fd. is the 8th part of 6d., to the price at 6d. (which is found at once in shillings, by taking half the number of articles) add l of that price.
a natural order of monocotyledonous plants, consisting of herbaceous plants either floating in water or growing in swamps. The leaves have parallel veins, even if expanded into a broad blade. The flowers are in umbels, racemes, or panicles ; the sepals 3, the petals 3, the number of stamens definite or indefinite. The ovaries are several, superior, one-celled, distinct or united ; the styles and stigmas.equal to them in number.' The fruit is dry, with one or two seeds in each carpel ; the seeds exalbumi.
nous.—There are about 50 known species, the natural order JUNCAGINEX, by which is very nearly allied, and is included in this some botanists. The species of both orders are chiefly natives of the northern parts of the world. WATER PLANTAIN (alisma plantago) is a very common plant in stagnant waters in Britain, and is not desti tute.of beauty. Its leaves, which have long footstalks, shoot up above the water, and amongst them but far above them rises the erect scape or leafless stem, dividing into slender whorled branches and branchlets, among which the little flowers appear to lie thinly scattered. The fleshy rhizome, or root-stock, is eaten by the Calmucks, after it has been deprived of its acridity by dryino.. The corms of the ARRONVITEAD (sagittaria) possess Somewhat similar properties. See ARROWHEAD.