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and in the water itself the Water Ranunculus (fig. 774), with its dark 

 green divided leaves, "shows that Nature has a plant for every position. 



I should not like to be deprived of the Buttercups and Daisies 

 which come up in our field, and which put to shame many a florists' 

 distortion. I have found the sweet-scented violet on the banks of a 

 hedge; and in shady spots the Chrysosplenium oppositifolinm (fig. 775) 

 forms patches of considerable beauty. 



I have elsewhere alluded to the beautiful Brisa media grass ; also 

 to the Water grass and to the Reed, which grow in our brooks. 

 Those weeds already described, taken together, form a choice flower 



FIG. 775 Chrysosplenium 

 oppositifolium. 



FIG. 776. Ivy-leaved Duckweed. 



FIG. 777. Lesser Duckweed. 



garden of themselves, ay, and contain species of greater beauty and of 

 greater variety than are to be found in some well-dug, well-hoed, 

 and well-raked artificial flower-gardens, continually interfered with 

 by the gardener's art. 



Besides these exquisite flowering weeds, there are others interesting, 

 but unpretending. We have two Duckweeds 

 in our water, the Lcmna Irisulca, or Ivy-leaved 

 Duckweed (fig. 776), and the Lcmna minor, 

 or Lesser Duckweed (fig. 777). In the water 

 we have the beautifully foliaged CallitricJie 

 (fig. 778), which is always welcome in a trout 

 stream, forming charming leafy grottoes, 

 beneath which the trout delight to remain 

 at rest. 



We have introduced into our waters one or two plants of the 



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FIG. 778. Callitriche (in water). 



