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conspicuous marginal plants in some ponds, but on the whole 

 cat-tail swamps are more characteristic of low flood plains along 

 rivers than of pond margins. Very often a luxuriant development 

 of cat-tails follows upon the removal of the original vegetation 

 from a swampy tract by drought or some similar < 



the subjoined list are given a number of other aquatics with aerial 

 foliage which are found in greater or less abundance growing in 

 shallow water along mucky shores in many lakes and ponds. 

 Alisma Plantago-aquatica Pontederia cordata 



Cladium mariscoides Sagittaria latifolia 



Dulichium arundinaceum Sparganium americanum 



Orontium aquaticum var. androcladum 



Peltandra virginica Sparganium eurycarpum 



To these should perhaps be added the curious Amphibious 

 Plants, Proserpinaca palustris, Sium cicutaefoHum, and Cicuta 

 bulbifera, — species adapted to alternate submergence and emer- 



