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Notes on Cabomba Caroliniana A. Gray

BY W. J. BEAL

Perhaps it is ten years ago that I bought some small plants of
this species of the water-lily family and placed in a small pond in
the botanic garden. Nothing seemed to come of them, and they
were given up for lost. In four years, there appeared some plants
in considerable quantity in the center of a larger pond below and
connected with the one where the Cabomba had been planted. I
supposed it was something else, but found the flowers to be those
of the long-lost Cabomba. It spreads, and is inclined to take complete possession of the lower ground, mixing in and crowding the
water lilies which were previously well established.