8 THE AQUARIUM, OCTOBER, 1892. 
varieties. They grew side by side and 
received the same treatment, but each 
developed its respective characteristics. 
The Louisiana variety in the more 
regular shape of the fan-shaped leaves 
and a brilliant, glossy, light green color 
on the upper. surface, while the under 
surface was covered with a silvery lus- 
HUGO MULERTT, Publisher, | tre; the Florida variety showed the 
Brooklyn, N. Y. same habit of growth, but the stemsand 
leaves were in the different tints of 
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RANUNCULUS AQUATILIS. 
At last we received an assorted lot 
of water plants from Florida, among 
which were some Cabombas, but not of 
that brilliant green color which dis- 
tinguished our Cabomba from all other 
water plants. The color of this Florida 
lot was rather dull, being a kind of 
brownish green. But this, we pre- 
sumed, could have been caused by a dif- 
ference in locality or quality of soil 
and water, and believed it to be the 
same variety. 
For the sake of acclimating these 
plants we planted them in several of 
our shallow open-air ponds and here we 
discovered that we had two distinct 
carmine ; the new leaves as they ap- 
peared being of salmon color, deepen- 
ing as they became stronger to a brilli- 
ant pink, then a dark carmine until 
they were of a brownish violet when 
oldest. 
The leaves sit opposite each other, 
they are cut in a systematical manner 
into a great many fine shreds, which 
altogether spread in such a way as to 
form a regular little open fan. 
The flowers of both varietiesare alike. 
They are of a trumpet shape, some- 
what similar to a single Geranium 
flower, silvery white with a yellow cen- 
tre, six petaled, and are half an inch in 
