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i'le-head, whistler, green-winged teal, greater and lesser 

 scaups or bluebills, white-winged and surf scoters, and 

 whistling swan. 



Description of Wild Celery Plant: 



Wild celery is a wholly submerged plant with long, 

 flexible, ribbonlike leaves of light translucent green and of 

 practically uniform width (anywhere from 14 to % inches; 

 from root to tip. Of course the leaves are narrowed near 

 the tip and may be somewhat serrate or w r avy-margined 

 there, but they are never expanded and the venation is pecu- 

 liar, according to McAtee. A leaf held up to the light dis- 

 plays numerous fine straight parallel veins running the 

 whole length. There are, besides, one median and two lat- 

 eral prominent veins connected at intervals by irregular 

 cross veinlets. Wild celery (Vallisneria spiralis) may be 

 distinguished from eel grass (Zostera marina), which lives 

 in brackish or salt water, by the fact that its leaves grow in 

 bundles from the rootstocks, while those of eel grass arise 

 singly and alternate on opposite sides of the stem. The 

 leaves of wild celery generally are more than a fourth of an 

 inch wide, while those of eelgrass are about that width or 

 narrower. Pipewort (Eriocaulon), a fresh-water plant, 

 frequently having ribbonlike leaves, may be recognized by 

 the reticulation of the entire leaf into small cells by veins of 

 nearly uniform size. 



In certain stages some of the arrowheads (Sagittaria) 

 are difficult to distinguish from wild celery, though they 

 usually have the end of the leaf expanded into a proper leaf 

 blade or else quite pointed, neither of which characteristics 

 will be found in Vallisneria. Investigation of the subter- 

 ranean organs will decide the matter, however. 



'The flowers of wild celery are usually to be seen in 

 July and are peculiar in appearance. The staniinate 

 Bowers, at first attached at the base of the plants, later float 



