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FOR several years past an aquatic plant known as the water hyacinth has been developing to such an enormous extent in the St. Johns River, Florida, as to cause serious apprehension in that region regarding its possible obstruction to navigation. About two years ago the War Department was asked to investigate the matter, and did so. In answer to urgent requests for exact information on the subject, the Department of Agriculture, on January 25, directed one of its agents, Mr. Herbert J. Webber, an assistant in the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, to visit the region and prepare a report covering the following points:
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A Troublesome Aquatic Plant. Nature 56, 332 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056332a0
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