LOTUSES, WATER HYACINTHS 167 



seen in America. The sterile leaves are 

 divided into many small oval segments, 

 making a feathery light green frond ten or 

 fifteen inches high. When one of these leaves 

 falls over into the w^ater, a young plant springs 

 from every axil and cleft. The fruiting fronds 

 have filiform segments, v^^ith revolute margins. 

 The innumerable spores germinate freely in 

 v(rater or on wet earth. It is in this way that 

 new plants are best secured. The plant is 

 naturally an annual, but it may be wintered 

 in a warm tank. Set it out in shallow water 

 (one to four inches deep) after warm weather 

 is estabHshed. 



Many curiosities may be added to the 

 water garden, some of which also have a 

 real place in the general effect of the garden. 

 The golden club (Orontium aquaticum) is 

 interesting for its yellow finger-hke blooms, 

 which come out soon after the ice melts. 

 The spotted callas {Richardia alho-maculatd) 

 may adorn the margin here and there. The 

 native pickerel-weed {Ponteder'ia cordatd) and 

 the lizard's tail {Saururus cernuus), with 



