MILLER AND STANDLEY—NORTH AMERICAN NYMPHAEA. 79 
occasionally tinged or tipped with red; stamens clear, bright lemon yellow throughout; 
fruit smaller than that of advena, 40 mm. high and 30 mm. in diameter, ovoid, con- 
spicuously constricted above, the ribs less prominent and the crater more shallow 
than in that species, the crater usually about 5 mm. deep; margin of the disk definitely 
although not deeply crenate; stigma rays 7 to 25, usually 12, 13, or 14, extending to 
within 1 mm. or less of the edge of the disk; capsule oil green, usually tinged with red, 
and often becoming a bright red with age; in the brightest colored fruits the stigmatic 
region usually remaining greenish yellow in striking contrast; seeds similar to those of 
N. advena but smaller, about 5 mm. long, the greater diameter 3.6 mm., the lesser 
diameter 3.2 mm., less compressed and witha less prominent raphe. (PLATEs 36, C, 
facing p. 73; 37, 38. Fiacures 8, 9, 10,c.) 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES 37, 38.—PIl. 37, Nymphaea americana, in Flathead Lake, Montana. Photo- 
graphed by Prof. M. J. Elrod. PI. 38, fruit of Nymphaea americana, collected at Springfield, Massachusetts, 
by Mr. Frederick Knab. Natural size. 
Specimens examined: 
Formalin— 
Canaba: Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, 1901, F. W. True; 150-mile House, 
Cariboo, British Columbia, 1901, A. C. Brooks; near Toronto, 1901, J. H. 
Fleming; Lake Joseph, Muskoka, Ontario, 1902, Fleming; Ottawa, 1902, 
Fletcher; Pointe 4 Pic, 1902, D. G. Elliott; St. Clair River near Walpole, 
Ontario. 
Marne: Maneskootuck, Rangeley, 1901, F. S. Dickson; Green Lake, 1901, E. E. 
Race; Cape Niddick, 1901, Charles Bullard; Little Sebago Lake; Birch 
Brook, Eagle Lake Chain, Aroostook County, 1903, W. C. Kendall. 
New HampsuireE: Intervale, 1901, G. M. Allen; Mud Pond, tributary to first 
Connecticut Lake, Coos County, 1904. 
Vermont: Lake Champlain, 1901, Eggleston. 
Massacuusetts: Springfield, 1901, Frederick Knab; Wareham, 1901, 0. Bangs; 
Stockbridge, 1908, J. A. Loring. 
Connecticut: Pembroke Lake near Bridgeport, 1902, G. A. Meeker. 
RuoveE Isranp: Lymansville, 1901, Angell & Cash; without locality, 1900, 
Mearns. 
New Jersey: New Bedford, Monmouth County, 1902, M. W. Lyon; Clementon, 
1902, S. N. Rhoads; Spring Lake, 6 miles south of Ocean Grove, 1902, Lyon. 
PENNSYLVANIA: Three and one-half miles east of Lopez, Sullivan County, 1901, 
Witmer Stone; pond near Lehigh River at Lehigh Gap, Lehigh County, 
1901, J. A. G. Rehn; Shady Nook. 
New York: Chautauqua Lake, 1901, M. Schlegel; Peterboro, 1901, B. D. Miller; 
Piseco, 1901, W. L. Ralph; Lake Titus, 1901, EZ. W. Nelson; South Mountain 
Lake, Catskill Mountains, 1903, Shull; Fish Creek, Oneida Lake, 1901, Mazon; 
Thousand Islands, 1902, Mazon; Machias, 1901, F. E. Ferris; Sodus Bay, 
1901, G. B. Turner; Smiths Pond, B. D, Gilbert. 
Ouro: Sandusky, 1902, W. A. Kellerman; Sandusky, 1903, M. T. Cook; Squaw 
Bay, Put in Bay Harbor, 1901, U. 8. Fish Commission. 
Micuican: Belle Isle Park, Detroit, 1907, Farwell; St. Clair Flats, 1901, U. S. 
Fish Commission. 
Wisconsin: Lake Superior, 1901, H. V. Ogden; Green Bay, 1903, J. H. Schuette; 
Upper Nemahin Lake, Waukesha County, 1901, H. V. Ogden; Milwaukee, 
1902, Ogden; West Superior, 1902, Charles Bullard. 
Inp1ana: Wolf Lake, 1903, Shull. 
Iowa: Manchester, 1901, R. S. Johnson. 
Minnesota: Lake Itasca, 1902, 7. S. Robertson; St. Louis River near Duluth, 
1901, L. E. Balbridge. 
Montana: Big Fork, 1902, M. J. Elrod; Big Fork, 1901, W. C. Barr. 
