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by the winds or currents from one side of the pond or basin 

 to the other. It blooms freely and the very abundant 

 floating roots and inflated petioles or leaf-stalks are very in- 

 teresting. 



WATER-POPPY (Limnocharis Humboldtii), Fig. 150. 

 The bright lemon-colored flowers of this little plant add 

 very greatly to the beauty of any collection of aquatics. 

 Plants set out in June grow rapidly and bloom freely. 



SALYINIA (S. Braziliensis). A very pretty little float- 

 ing plant with light green almost heart-shaped leaves 

 covered with many soft hairs. It grows freely, and floating 

 about among the larger plants has a very pleasing effect. 



AQUATIC BORDER-PLANTS. 



PAPYRUS OR REED PAPER-PLANTS (Papyrus anti- 

 quorum), Fig. 144, page 246. This plant has already been 

 described under " Subtropical Plants," but is equally 

 useful and beautiful for the borders of ponds and fountain- 

 basins. It is one of the most beautiful of plants, wherever 

 grown, its graceful umbrella-like clusters of leaves being 

 entirely unlike any foliage of the temperate zone. It grows 

 equally well on the banks or in the water at the border, 

 and makes a beautiful centre plant for a group of other 

 upland aquatics or in large clusters by itself. 



VARIEGATED FLAG (Acorus Japonicus variegatus). Our 

 native "sweet flag" is familiar to most persons, and this 

 plant is very much like it except that it has most beauti- 

 fully variegated green and white leaves. It is perfectly 

 hardy and grows freely. 



PORCUPINE-PLANT (Scirpus Taberncemontani zebrina). 

 ' A beautiful hardy plant with round leafless stems, beauti- 



