Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — Floating Plant. [ARTICLE]

Floating Plant.

A new plant possessing anti-malarial properties, as alleged, is receiving public attention. This is the Jussience' grandiflora, a floating plant of the bayous and lower lakes of Louisiana, which has long been observed to pre-

vent the development of malaria in regions peculiarly adapted to its generation. The claim is put forth for it that it purifies all stagnant water in which it grows; that the lakes and bayous inhabited by it are singularly pure to the sight, taste, and smell; and that to its presen oe, and its undoubted hygienic or health-preserving qualities, is to be attributed the remarkable exemption of the people of Lower Louisiana from malarious or miasmatic diseases. It is also stated that in the region thus repeatedly preserved from such diseases there are more stagnant waters and swamps than in any other part of the country. —Floral World.