48 THE GOLDFISH AND ITS CULTURE. 
THE VIVID FANWORT. 
(Cabomba viridifolia.) 
The leaves of this beautiful plant are very regularly divided 
into narrow shreds and resemble a palmleaf fan; they are two 
inches in diameter and are borne opposite each other on a 
round and rather brittle stem. Their color is a brilliant light 
green above, while the underside is covered with a silvery lus- 
tre. Just before going to bloom, in the spring, small arrow- 
shaped leaves appear, to float the little silvery white, trumpet- 
shaped flowers. These open at 9 a.m. and close again at 3 P.M. 
The plant is a native of Brazil and evergreen, of my introduc- 
tion (1878). 
THE ROSY FANWORT. 
(C. rosaefolia.) 
This specie is smaller and the shreds that form the leaves 
are narrower and not so regularly arranged as those of the 
preceding. It has the same creeping habit, also the flowers 
are like those of the former; the color of the foliage is 
brownish green above and deep purple underneath ; during the 
warm season the stems and leaves turn to the different tints 
of carmine; the new leaves are, when they first appear, salmon, 
deepening as they become stronger to a brilliant pink, then to 
a dark carmine, and when oldest they are brownish violet in 
color. This is a grand plant under favorable conditions! When 
grown in company with the preceding in a shallow basin, with 
their branches intermingled and seen from above, then one im- 
agines seeing a huge submerged bouquet of full blown green 
and pink roses. 
It should be grown in sandy peat in glass pots (salve 
jars) and in a partly shaded position. 
