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few forms often grow. Fringing zones of pickerel weed and the 

 like are quite as characteristic of flood plains as of lake shores, 

 while marshy swamps, predominated by wild rice (Fig. 7) and 

 other grass-like plants, are a prominent feature of many low flood 



Fig. 7. Wild rice along banks of the Quinnipiac River, North Haven. Some 

 idea of the height of this grass is suggested by the bow of the canoe in the foreground. 



plains, particularly toward the mouth of the river. Here, within 

 the sphere of tidal influence, the ground occupied by these plants 

 may be submerged at high tide and bare at low tide. 



