THE FAMILY AQUARIUM. 



tive in its oxygenizing capacity, nothing could be more 

 appropriate for an Aquarium than the Anacharis Canor 

 densisj or Water-weed. The same high praise may be 

 bestowed on : 



— No. 11. Tape Grass, which may be had in the Hudson 

 Eiver, especially near Newburgh, or in the Delaware and 

 Raritan canal, where it becomes seriously abundant occa- 

 sionally, about Princeton, N. J. The Valtsneria spiralis 

 came originally from Italy, and is named after VaUsnei, 

 an Italian naturalist, who wrote on insects and plants in 



Valisneria spiralis — (Tape Grass.) 



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