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yond, in the brook, may be found the water-poppy family, 
represented by the water-poppy, a showy plant common 
in tropical regions; this is not hardy and must be removed 
to a warm place for the winter; it will also be found at 
all times at conservatory range 1, house 9. 
Following to the north comes the large group of the 
grasses and grass-like plants, those whose flowers, mostly 
very small, are subtended by chaffy scales or glumes. 
This is represented by the grasses and the sedges, several 
beds being devoted to each of these families. Some of the 
more familiar grasses are: timothy; Kentucky blue-grass; 
reed canary-grass; orchard grass; red-top; and tall fescue- 
grass; all used in making hay. Other grasses of interest 
are: sweet vernal-grass, exhaling a pleasant odor when 
bruised; the Japanese plume-grass, in several forms, very 
ornamental; the ribbon-grass, a variegated form of the reed 
canary-grass, and also ornamental; and species of many 
other genera. 
The sedges are represented mainly by the large genus 
Carex, of which there are many species, native in the United 
States, growing in swamps, meadows, and woodlands. 
Fraser’s sedge (Cymophyllus Fraseri) is a striking plant 
from the southeastern United States, at one time one of the 
rarest of plants, but rediscovered in recent years in large 
quantities in the mountains of North Carolina. The 
tussock sedge, common in our swamps in early spring, the 
cat-tail sedge, Gray’s sedge and the fox sedge, are others 
belonging to the genus Carex. There are also representa- 
tives of bullrushes and other sedges. 
Following the sedges is the arum family, having as repre- 
sentative plants, familiar to many, the skunk cabbage, the 
green arrow-arum, the green dragon, the jack-in-the-pulpit, 
and the sweet flag. In the brook opposite to this family 
may be found the somewhat related duckweed family; the 
duckweeds (Lemna) are very common, the tiny plants 
sometimes occurring in such numbers as to cover the surface 
of ponds and slowly moving streams. Coming now to the 
