Plants Growing in Water. 



Almost hidden tinder the benevolejtt shade of an overhang- 

 ing bough a little pond is lying. It has awaked from its 

 lo7ig winter sleep of apathy and is upholding its world of 

 life to the sunshine. The pale, apple-green growth that clings 

 about the edges, the tall spikes of water-weed, the darting, 

 skipping beetles and fishes and the graceful lilies floating 

 about are all in love with the iridescent, opal tints of the 

 water. 



Here we may think of them together ; for it would be a 

 queer sight to see the bullfrog or the lily gambolling upon the 

 sunny hillsides, 



WATER=ARUM. WILD CALLA. {Plate I.) 



C cilia palustris. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Arum. White. Disagreeable. Penn. northward. June. 



Injlorescence : terminal ; solitary. The flowers clustered upon a thick, fleshy 

 spadix about which a milk-white spathe, one and one-half inches at base, is 

 wrapped. Fi/amefifs : s]ei\der. A nt/iers : two-celled. Z^az'^j-; on long petioles, 

 rather heart-shaped. Rootstock : creeping. 



This little plant wafts across the mind visions of an under- 

 world garden. And if there is such a place the flowers there 

 must surely glance upward and think of the wild callas as 

 fairies that have flown above ; for much mystery lies in their 

 dainty whiteness. They have luxurious relatives living in green- 

 houses, and although the calla-lily has snobbishly disowned this 



