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BOTANICAL NOTICES.
IT is not here intended to attempt a systematic arrangement of
the botany of the district, nor even an enumeration of all the
rare plants that may be met with, in a region possessing such
variety of soil and situation - but merely, a brief notice of
some of those which not unfrequently present themselves to the
observation of the tourist, without going far out of his way to
seek them.
In shallow parts of Lakes, where the bottom is of peat, the
Bull-rush and Common Reed, Scirpus lacustris and Arundo
Phragmitis,[1] rear their heads on high above the water; the
leaves and flowers of the White, and Yellow, Water-Lily,
Nymphaea alba and Nuphar lutea, float upon the
surface; and the bottom is rendered verdant by a commixture of
Lobelia Dortmanna, Littorella lacustris, and
Isoetes lacustris. The Lobelia spreads a tuft of
radical leaves upon the bottom, and in July shoots up its spike
of delicate pale flowers above the water; the Littorella
puts forth its long and slender stamina most freely, when in a
dry
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