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YELLOW POM) LILY. 
Where there is a deep deposit of mud in the shallows of still 
waters we frequently find many different species of aquatics growing 
promiscuously. The tall lance-like leaf and blue-spiked heads of 
the stately Pontederia, keeping guard as it were above the graceful 
Yymphaaa, like a gallant knight with lance in rest, ready to defend 
his queen, and around these the fair and delicate white flowers of 
the small arrow-head rest their frail heads upon the water, looking 
as if the slightest breeze that ruffled its surface would send them 
from their place of rest. 
Beyond this aquatic garden lie beds of wild rice [Zizania aquatica] 
with its floating leaves of emerald green, and waving grassy flowers 
of straw colour and purple—while nearer to the shore the bright 
rosy tufts of the Water Persicaria, with its dark-green leaves and 
crimson stalks, delight the eyes of the passer-by. 
