WILDWOOD WAYS 



No one can say they are apetalous or 

 monosepalous or sporangiferous or call 

 them other hard names in Latin having 

 reference to their flowering or fruiting 

 for we may not say that they flower or 

 fruit at all. These minutest Lemnas 

 give us no sign of stamin or spore, of 

 carpel or indusium, yet they multiply by 

 millions and cover the surface of the 

 spring pools whence they depart con- 

 stantly with the outflowing current, voy- 

 aging gayly down Brobdingnagian rapids 

 to the sea. The time of year when it is 

 winter in the sky above and on the bank 

 a few feet up the hillside, when all green 

 life except that which grows with its roots 

 in this magic water from the deep caves 

 of earth is either killed or suspended, 

 seems to be their time for growth. 



They grow a little, to a certain stage 

 when perhaps a plant covers surface to 

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