256 NICHOLS: THE VEGETATION OF CONNECTICUT 
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 (Fic. 7) and 
other grass-like plants, are a prominent feature of many low flood 
Some 
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Fic. 7. Wild rice along banks of the Quinnipiac River, North Haven. 
idea of the height of this grass is suggested by the bow of the canoe in the foregrout 
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. 
