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— a type familiar to all of us in the white and 

 yellow water-lily, and also in the beautiful little 

 fringed linuiantheniuni. The reascn why floating 



NO. 9. — THF. TROGBIT IN SUMMER, FLOWERING. 



leaves assume this circular shape is easy to per- 

 ceive ; they need no stout stalk to support them, 

 like aerial foliage, the water serving to Hoat them on 

 its surface ; and as they find the whole surrounding 



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