. . PLATE buds of wild PLATE pods of wild celery. CONSERVATION OF GAME BIRDS. 577 & length. There are also one middle vein and two veinsnear the edge, all of which are more prominent than the are connected at intervals by cross veinlets. Some-times this plant is confused with eelgrass {Zostera marina)ywhich grows in tidewater, but the leaves of wild celery growin bundles from the root stock, whilethose of eelgrass grow singly and al-ternately on opposite sides of thestem. Wild celery is so

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. . PLATE buds of wild PLATE pods of wild celery. CONSERVATION OF GAME BIRDS. 577 & length. There are also one middle vein and two veinsnear the edge, all of which are more prominent than the are connected at intervals by cross veinlets. Some-times this plant is confused with eelgrass {Zostera marina)ywhich grows in tidewater, but the leaves of wild celery growin bundles from the root stock, whilethose of eelgrass grow singly and al-ternately on opposite sides of thestem. Wild celery is sometimes con-founded with pipe wort {Eriocaulon),a fresh-water plant, and also withcertain stages of arrow-head. Thestaminate flowers of the wild celery,attached at the base of the plant,shed pollen which floats on the waterand fertilizes the pistillate flowers,which are attached to a long, slender,rounded stem. This stem assumes aspiral form, and by its contractiondraws the flower under water afterfertilization, where the seed pod isdeveloped. This seed pod and itsspiral stem distinguish this fro

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