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MAREOTIS (Arabic Mariut)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 700 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MAREOTIS (Arabic Mariut) , the most westerly of the lakes in the
Delta
  of
Egypt
 . On the narrow strip of
land
  separating the lake from the Mediterranean the city of
Alexandria
  is built. (See
EGYPT
 ; and
ALEXANDRIA
 .)
MARE'S-TAIL, in botany, the popular name for an aquatic herb known botanically as Hippuris vulgaris (natural order Haloragaceae). It grows on margins of lakes, ponds and similar localities, and has a submerged stout creeping rootstock from which
spring
  many-jointed cylindrical stems bearing numerous narrow leaves close-set in whorls. The minute greenish
flowers
  are borne in the
leaf
 -axils. Like many fresh-water
plants
  it has a wide distribution, occurring in arctic and temperate regions in the northern hemisphere and reappearing in antarctic
South
  America.


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