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needle, branching frequently and possessing short, very slender 

 leaves with rather sharp points. The flowers are of a lemon- 

 yellow color and one or two are produced at a time. This form 

 is, however, rare in Minnesota and usually the water star-grass 

 appears on mud-flats as a plant two or three inches long with 

 characteristic lemon-yellow flowers, each with six equally col- 

 ored portions. 



To this order belong also the pineapples and Spanish mosses 

 of the south and several tropical families not represented in the 

 United States. 



