"Aquatic plant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attempts which have at last shown me the right road, I place at their disposal two kinds of materials, possessing opposite qualities; the supple and the firm, the soft and the hard. On the one hand, we have a live aquatic plant, such as watercress, for instance, or ombrelle d'eau, having at its base a tufty bunch of fine white roots about as thick as a horsehair. In these soft tresses, the caddis worm, which observes a vegetarian diet, ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre
... This aquatic plant invariably grows in either dead water or in the most sluggish stream, and none existed in the part of the river at N. lat. ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker |
