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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ONE OK THK MOST GLORIOl'S FLOWKRS IN ALL NATURE 

 The Pond Lily or Sweet-scented Water Lily' (Castalia odorata) is known to nearly everyone, not only throughout America but in the Old World. 

 It blooms all summer long in many localities, being a plant confined to ponds, lakes, and sometimes to rivers without a perceptible current. The 

 picture here given is from a steel engraving of one of the late Dr. Robert Collett's superb series, copied from one of his remarkable photographs 

 made in Norway, where this plant is also found. 



them, which it would be likely to do were they like the 

 ones above the .surface. These long, delicate, subaquatic 

 leaves arc also exposed to the air contained in the water, 

 and so perform a similar function with respect to giving 

 off carbonic acid and the absorption of oxygen. When 

 the water dries up, as often happens during long, dry 

 summers, these latter leaves shrivel up and entirely dis- 

 appear. In fact, such plants must be amphibious al- 

 though stationary, and be able to breathe as an aquatic 

 plant as well as a terrestrial one. Wonderful indeed are 

 the results that have come about since the time plants 

 first appeared on this planet, and similar marvelous 

 changes are still in progress upon every hand. To un- 

 derstand most of these we must needs study industri- 

 ously and intelligently all the thousands upon thou- 

 sands of fossil plants that science has collected and clas- 

 sified. 



Writing about the arrow-head, Alice Lounsberry 

 quaintly remarks : "The demure arrow-heads are surely 

 the Quakers of the flower-world ; and that they do not 



condone frivolity, we may gather from the way in which 

 they kee]) their pistillate and staminate members apart. 

 The pistillate ones also deck themselves in very seemly 

 little petals that fall early and do not vie in comeliness 

 with those of the staminate blossoms. It hardly seems 

 possible that one of these little under-flowers would ever 

 have the courage to call out boldly : 'Joseph, thou art 

 keeping the sunshine from falling u])on my head.' " 



All through the Gulf States is a fine region in which 

 to study aquatic plants. In the country about New Or- 

 leans, some of the big, stagnant ponds are good places in 

 which to study the lilies, the wonderful growth of grasses 

 and sedges, and plants that flourish in wet places gener- 

 ally. As one passes from i)ond to pond in the summer 

 time, remarkable flowers may be collected, and no end 

 of interesting animal forms observed. Among the lat- 

 ter we may note thousands of specimens of the big, black 

 lubber grasshopper, of which insect a reproduction of a 

 photograph is here presented. As throughout all the 

 eastern part of the United States and westward, we meet, 



