The Yellow Water-lily will dianthus deltoides be found floating on ponds and sluggish streams. Known, also, as the Brandy-bottle, on account of its flagon-like seed-vessel. It has a thick, fleshy rootstock, which creeps deltoides dianthus in the mud and is rich in tannic acid. Some of the leaves are submerged and these are thin, but the floating ones are thick and leathery; heartshaped and the dianthus deltoides lobes not far apart. The stalks, somewhat triangular in section, are traversed by a great number of fine air-canals, as are the flower-salks also, to give them buoyancy dianthus deltoides.
It is not a native, but having been grown in southern England for so long, it is now considered as deltoides dianthus an indigene. Its great recommendation is the power to withstand cutting salt winds, and as it is readily propagated by cuttings, it has become extensively used as protective hedges for dianthus deltoides seaside gardens in the localities referred to. Its flowers are minute, white or pink, clustered in a blunt spike about one and a half inches long. They consist of four dianthus deltoides or five lance-shaped sepals, five petals and atapering ovary, with three or four short styles. The fruit is triangular in section.
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