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FRESH-WATEE AQUAEIA. 



The Buck-bean {Menyanthes trifoUata) perhaps can hardly 

 be called an aquarhun weed, because it prefers to grow in very 

 damp, boggy soil rather than altogether in water ; stiU, its 

 exceeding beauty tempts one to place it in the tank if possible, 

 and there it will certainly succeed well if properly situated. 

 Few British flowers are so beautiful as those which this plant 



Fig. 51. FORGET-ME-KOT (Myosotis palustris). 



bears. It should be planted in as large a pot as convenient, 

 and so hidden among the rockwork that the lower part of the 

 pot is in the water. A small plant oiight to be chosen. It is 

 a trefoil, that is, three leaflets grow on a common stalk, and 

 " each leaf -stalk has a sheathing base, opposite to one of which 

 rises the beautiful cluster of blossoms." The buds are a bright 

 rose colour, and the open flowers are covered with a white silken 



