82 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Specimens ecamined—Continued. 
Dry—Continued. , 
Iowa: Iowa City, Hitchcock (Mo.); Hamilton County, 1891, P. H. Rolfs (Mo.); 
Armstrong, Emmet County, 1887, Cratty (Mo.); Iowa and Minnesota Line, 
1897, Pammel 520 (Mo.); Winnesheik County, 1895, Fitzpatrick (Mo.). 
Sourn Daxora: White, 1893, Thornber; Six Mile Creek, west of White, 1902, .A. 
G. Johnson; White, 1893, T. A. Williams; Aurora Creek southeast of Brook- 
ings, 1904. . 
Montana: Rost Lake, 1901, MacDougal 652; Columbia Falls, 1892, R. S, Wil- 
liams 869. 
For comparison of this plant with Nymphaea advena see page 88. 
4. Nymphaea fraterna Miller & Standley, sp. nov. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 441399, collected in Toms River, New 
Jersey, August 6, 1903, by 
M. W. Lyon. 
DIstRIBUTION: East- 
central New Jersey. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Petioles flattened, with 
a median ridge along the 
inner side, glabrous; float- 
ing leaf blades oblong- 
ovate or ovate, 10 to 22 
cm. long and 8 to 15 cm. 
wide, broadest at or below 
the middle, conspicuously 
narrowed and _ acutish 
towards the apex, rather 
thin, glabrous; sinuses 
open and very narrow, or 
closed and the lobes partly 
overlapping, 20 to 65 mm. 
deep, the lobes rounded; 
submersed leaves very 
thin and delicate, nu- 
merous, broader than the 
floating ones, broadly 
ovate or almost orbicular 
in outline, 85 to 155 mm. 
long and 70 to 135 mm, 
wide, broadly rounded or 
slightly narrowed at the 
Fic, 11.—Leaf outline of Nymphaea fraterna. Scale }. apex, the sinus 25 to 50 
mm. deep, usually open, 
rather narrow, the lobes broadly rounded, the margins somewhat plicate; flowers 
depressed-globose, 22 to 26 mm. in diameter, only slightly depressed at the base; 
sepals 6, when spread measuring 50 to 65 mm.; outer ones thin, glabrous, rather 
narrowly oblong, 16 to 21 mm. long and 11 to 13 mm. wide, rounded at the apex; 
inner sepals deltoid-cbovate, shallowly emarginate, 18 to 23 mm. long, gradually 
narrowed to the base; stamens in usually 4 rows, their anthers slightly longer than the 
