PONDWEED FAMILY 



a white, waxen mass, in texture not unlike that of a tuberose and 

 very fragrant. The bracts are aUernate and each sustains and 

 protects a little group of brown-anthered stamens, surrotmding 



Cape Pondweed. Aponogelon distdchyum 



a group of carpels. After fertilization of the flowers, the bracts 

 become green and look like tufts of leaves among which the large, 

 beaked carpels will be found. 



This Pondweed was introduced into English water-gardens 

 in 1788, and the fragrance of the flowers gave it the common 

 name of Water-Hawthorn. There is a variety known as La- 

 grangei with violet bracts and leaves violet beneath. 



