2 BULLETIN 465, IT. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTUBE. 



potato and wapato), chufa, wild millet, and waterlilies (especially 

 the banana waterlily). 1 The kinds of foods that can be recommended 

 for propagation must practically be restricted to those already on 

 the market. This fact has controlled the selection of the varieties 

 discussed in previous publications. It is highly desirable that deal- 

 ers increase the scope of their stock so that persons interested may 

 obtain seeds or other parts necessary for the propagation of addi- 

 tional kinds, a number of which are just as valuable as food for 

 wild ducks as some now offered for sale. The best of these are 

 shown in Table I. 



Table I. — Wild-cluck foods not at present on the market. 



No. Common name. 



Scientific name. 



General range. 



Local conditions. 



Bur reed 



Do 



Pondweed 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Western widgeon-grass 

 Horned pondweed 



Bushy pondweed. 

 Arrowhead 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Grass 



Switch grass 



Salt-marsh grass.. 

 Cord grass 



Do 



Meadow grass . 

 Bulrush 



Do.... 

 Do.... 

 Do.... 

 Do.... 

 Do.... 

 Do.... 

 Saw grass. 



Wampee 3 



Pickerel weed 3 . 



Sparganium eurycarpum... 

 Sparganium angustifolium. 

 Potamogeton heterophyllus. . 



Potamogeton pusiUus 



Potamogeton filiformis 



Potamogeton interior 



Buppia occidentalis 



Zannichellia palustris 



Naias flexilis 



Sagittaria longiloba 



Sagittaria rigida 



Sagittaria teres 



Sagittaria graminea . . . 



Sagittaria papulosa 



Panicum condensum... 



Panicum virgatum 



Spartina cynosuroides.. 

 Sparlina michauxiana. 



Spartina gracilis 



Panicularia nervata. 

 Scirpus americanus. 



United States 



Northern States 



Northern Hemisphere. 



do 



Northern States 



Western States 



do 



Cosmopolitan 



Northern Hemisphere. 



Western States 



Northern States 



Atlantic coast 



Eastern States 



Gulf States 



Eastern States 



United States 



Atlantic coast 



Eastern States 



Western States. 

 United States . . 

 Cosmopolitan.. 



Scirpus validus 



Scirpus occidentalis.. . 



Scirpus paludosus 



Scirpus robustus . 



Scirpus fluviatilis 



Scirpus cubensi-s 



Cladiu m effusum 



Carex decomposita 



Peltandra virginka j do 



Poutederia cordata ! do 



North America 



United States 



....do 



Atlantic coast 



Northern States 



Gulf States 



Southeastern States . 

 Eastern States 



Marshes. 

 Quiet water. 2 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Saline lakes. 

 Eresh or brackish 



water. 

 Quiet water. 

 Shallow water. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Swamps. 

 Wet soil. 

 Salt marshes. 

 Fresh or brackish 



marshes. 

 Saline soil. 

 Wet soil. 

 Fresh or brackish 



marshes. 

 Shallow water. 



Do. 

 Salt marshes. 



Do. 

 Shallow water. 

 Swamps. 

 Coast marshes. 

 Swamps. 

 Shallow water. 



Do. 



1 Other plants are included in Department Bulletin No. 205 (25 p., 23 figs.), as fol- 

 lows: Musk grass, duckweeds, frogbit, thalia. water elm, swamp privet, eelgrass, widgeon- 

 grass, watercress, waterweed, and coontail. 



- Where not specified, fresh water is to be understood. 



3 This plant now on sale by some dealers. 



