. The Game breeder . November, 1910, had eaten enoughseeds, with a little foliage of coontail, toform on an average more than half oftheir food. The plant thus has considerable localvalue as a wild-duck food. However,its tendency to crowd out more desirablespecies makes transplanting unwise, un-less in particularly difficult cases whereother plants have failed. The very. Fig-. 23—Seeds and Fruit of Coontail. Fig. 22—Coontail, A Diffuse Form. qualities of coontail that make it a nui-sance in natural waters commend it toduck farmers. The stems of coontail {Ceratophyllumdemersum) are thickly clot
. The Game breeder . November, 1910, had eaten enoughseeds, with a little foliage of coontail, toform on an average more than half oftheir food. The plant thus has considerable localvalue as a wild-duck food. However,its tendency to crowd out more desirablespecies makes transplanting unwise, un-less in particularly difficult cases whereother plants have failed. The very. Fig-. 23—Seeds and Fruit of Coontail. Fig. 22—Coontail, A Diffuse Form. qualities of coontail that make it a nui-sance in natural waters commend it toduck farmers. The stems of coontail {Ceratophyllumdemersum) are thickly clothed withround, dense masses of foliage (Figs. 21and 22), which in shape amply justifythe common name so widely used in theSouth, and which is here adopted for theplant. Coontail is a submerged plant,but only exceptionally is it attached to THE GAME BREEDER 81 the bottom, as it has no roots; it usuallygrows in rather quiet waters from 2 to10 feet deep. The leaves are composedof slender but rather stiff filaments,twice or thrice forked, and sparinglyfurnished with small acute grow in whorls of from 5 to 12,and are usually much crowded on theupper part of the stem. The fruit of coontail (Fig. 23) iscomposed of a rather large, flattenedseed, wedge-shaped at one end androunded at the other, inclosed in a thincovering which bears various tubercleso
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