68 Fresh Water Aquarium 



The Creeping Rush (Jimcus rcpcus) comes 

 to us from the Southern States. The flat 

 stems spring from a fanlike bundle of narrow 

 leaves of a very light, bright green. After 

 a short growth new little fans form on the 

 stems and continue to sprout and to spread 

 until the plant appears more or less as a little 

 bush, of exceedingly graceful appearance. 



Fine threadlike rootlets form at the base 

 of the bunches of leaves, so that the propa- 

 gation consists simply in cutting off the 

 bunches, with part of the supporting stem, 

 and in planting them wherever they are 

 wanted in the aquarium. We have never 

 observed the plant above the surface of the 

 water, and we have also failed to notice any 

 sign of flowering. In its wild state this 

 Tuncus accommodates itself to local condi- 

 tions in that, wherever it happens to become 

 submerged, it will show the same form of 

 growth which we see in the aquarium. As 

 soon as the water recedes, however, or when 

 growing from seed on moist but not sub- 



