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not a silken thread to convey the pollen to the 

 kennel, the grain will be found wanting. The 

 most important tree in the class for food is the 

 Bread Fruit. 



The Cat Tail Typha, improperly used by 

 some people for filling bed ticks, as it answers 

 much better for making mats and seating chairs. 

 The Sedge Carex. is a coarse grass of little 

 apparent use; and as we have said enough 

 about the orders we will finish with the Arrow- 

 head- Sagittaria, so common in muddy waters, 

 and mentioned in the verses you like so much, 

 called Little Streams, and the Spurge Euphor- 

 bia. 



Little streams have bowers a-many, 

 Beautiful and fair as any ; 

 Typha strong and green Bur Rted 

 Willow Herb with cotton seed ; 

 Arrow Head with eye of jet, 

 And the Water Violet, 

 There the flowering rush you meet. 

 And the plumy Meadow sweet ; 

 And in places deep and stilly, 

 Marble-like the Water Lily. 



