HIGHER PLANTS 



waders who often find shallows of lakes and creeks clogged 

 with its streaming leaves. It is always rooted in the bottom 

 and the leaves may be a yard or more long though scarcely 



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Fig. 66. — Eel-grass, Vallisneria spiralis. 



a quarter of an inch wide, bending with ever>' shift of the 

 current. The small greenish female flowers are borne singly 

 on the ends of long spiral stems so supple and springy that 

 they are not pulled under water when wind ripples its sur- 



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