. Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation : a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. With 280 explanatory illustrations, printed with the text. FIG. 115 Spiked Water-milfoil,Myriophyllum spicatum,whorled leaf, flowerstalk and blossom. Reduced one-half. AQUATIC PLANTS OF FRESHWATER. or Chilian Water-milfoil, Fig. i i 6. The pectinate-pinnatifid submergedand emersed leaves are alike andgrow in whorls of 4*s and 5s abouta creeping stem. The minutewhite auxiliary and pistillate flowershave 4 stamens and develop 4 car-pels. Small hai
. Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation : a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. With 280 explanatory illustrations, printed with the text. FIG. 115 Spiked Water-milfoil,Myriophyllum spicatum,whorled leaf, flowerstalk and blossom. Reduced one-half. AQUATIC PLANTS OF FRESHWATER. or Chilian Water-milfoil, Fig. i i 6. The pectinate-pinnatifid submergedand emersed leaves are alike andgrow in whorls of 4*s and 5s abouta creeping stem. The minutewhite auxiliary and pistillate flowershave 4 stamens and develop 4 car-pels. Small hairlike white bractsare borne at the base of the leavesand among the flowers. The finelypinnate, brilliantly green leaves andtheir graceful habit in growingabove the water has made this averv desirable plant, but it is anindifferent oxygenator, as the sub-merged leaves soon slough off andthe rapidly growing plant sends itsgreen crown ot leaves 4 to 6 inches FIG. 116. Parrots feather, M\rioph\llum proserpina-above the Surface Ot the Water. coides. Emersed leaves. Reduced one-fourth. The emersed leaves fold together atsundown to again open after is a beautiful semi-aquatic plant, andis extensively grown in watertight hang-ing baskets or jars where the fine singlestems hang over the sides in handsomefestoons. In addition to the abov
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