72 YELLOW POND LILY. 



Where there is a deep deposit of mud in the shallows of still 

 waters we frei^uently find many different species of aquatics growing 

 promiscuously. The tall lance-like leaf and blue-spiked heads of 

 the stately PonUden'a, keeping guard as it were above the graceful 

 Nywpliaa, like a galhmt knight with lance in rest, ready to defend 

 his queen, and around these the fair and delicate white flowers of 

 the small arrow-head rest their frail heads upon the water, looking 

 as if the slightest breeze that ruffled its surface would send them 

 from their place of rest. 



Beyond this aquatic garden lie beds of wild rice Zizania aquatica, 

 with its floatiiig leaves of emerald green, and v/aving grassy flowers 

 of straw colour and purple— while nearer to the shore the bright 

 rosy tufts of the V/ater Persicaria, with its dark-green leaves and 

 crimson stalks^ delight the eyes of the passer-by. 



