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contained in the round germ that stood in the midst 
of the flower. 
The Pond-lily then told her of the Vallisneria Spi¬ 
ralis, which grows in Italy, and has two sets of 
flowers. The long cork-screw stalks rise to the 
top of the water where the calyx of the fertile flow¬ 
ers expands in the open air. Many more rise soon 
after, on long, straight stems, looking like white 
bubbles, and suddenly burst when they reach the 
surface, and float about it in such abundance as to 
cover it entirely, scattering their pollen over the 
stigmas of the other blossoms. Then these stalks 
resume their spiral form, and descending, ripen their 
fruit at the bottom of the water. 
She told, too, of the Fucus Giganticus, that rises 
three hundred feet from the bed of the lakes, bear¬ 
ing on its stem vesicles of air, that retain it in its 
erect posture, and supporting leaves on the surface 
