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and in the water itself the Water Ranunculus (fig. 774), with its dark 

 green divided leaves, shows that Nature has a plant for every position. 



In our water-cress beds the Slum angustifolium (fig. 774 «) con- 

 stantly grows, but I have not permitted the dangerous, deadly CEnanthe 

 crocata, or Water Parsnip (fig. 7 74 3), to grow in my streams. 



Buttercups and Daisies put to shame many a florists' distortion ; 

 and in shady spots the Chrysosplenium oppositifolium (fig. 775) forms 

 patches of considerable beauty. 



I have elsewhere alluded to the beautiful Briza media grass ; also 

 to the Water grass and to the Reed, which grow in our brooks 



Fig. 775. — Chrysospleniunv 

 oppositifolium. 



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Fig. 776. — Ivy-leaved Duckweed. 



Fig. 777.— Lesser Dueliweed. 



Those weeds already described, taken together, form a choice flower- 

 garden of themselves, ay, and contain species of greater beauty and of 

 greater variety than are to be found in some well-dug, well-hoed, 

 and well-raked artificial flower-gardens, — continually interfered with 

 by the gardener's art. 



Besides these exquisite flowering weeds, there are others, interesting 

 but unpretending. We have two Duckweeds 

 in our water, — the Lemna trisulca, or Ivyleaved 

 Duckweed (fig. TjS), and the Lemna minor^^ 

 or Lesser Duckweed (fig. ^^^). In the water 

 we have the beautifully foliaged Callitriche 

 (fig. 778), which is always welcome in a trout 

 stream, — forming charming leafy grottoes, in 



which the trout delight to dwell. F>o.778.-CalH.riche-(in«.,er;. 



We have introduced into our waters one or two plants of the 



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