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NYMPHA‘A oporata, var, minor floribus roseis. 
Native of the United States. 
Nat. Ord. NympH#acEx.—Tribe NyMPHzz. 
Genus Nympuma, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 46.) 
Nyrupxma odorata, foliis orbicularibus basi ad petiolum fissis marginibus inte- 
gerrimis, stipulis rhizomati appressis late triangularibus v. subreniformibus 
apice emarginatis, floribus albis odoratis, sepalis oblongis cum petalis et antheris 
obtusis, stigmatum appendicibus brevibus incurvis, seminibus stipitatis oblongis 
arillo multo brevioribus. 
N. —— Ait. Hort. Kew. vol. ii. p. 227; Bot. Mag. t. 819; A. Gray, Man. 
ed. 5, p. 56. 
Var. rosea; petalis roseis. N. odorata var. rosea, Pursh. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 369. 
The rose-coloured varieties of the European Nymphea 
alba, and of the American JN. odorata, have attracted much 
attention in this country, and I have taken the opportunity 
of figuring the latter in order to correct the misapprehension 
raised by the figure and description of N. odorata var. minor 
published in 1814 in this work at Tab. 1652, which is there 
described as var. B. rosea, but which is not the true 
variety of that name. WN. minor, DC. itself is only a small- 
leaved and flowered state of N. odorata, passing into it by 
every gradation, as remarked by Gray; and the rose-colour 
of the flowers is not confined to it, though possibly more 
usual in the smaller than in the larger states of the species. 
The plate, Tab. 1652, is, no doubt, referable to var. minor, 
and is a narrow-petalled state of that variety, but the calyx 
and petals, though described as rosy externally, are figured 
as pure white. This is the more remarkable, as the de- 
scription says, “ That it is really the rose-coloured variety 
of odorata of Pursh is certain, being the product of roots 
brought from America by himself. This excellent botanist 
describes the flowers as being externally of a rose colour ; 
but in our plant neither calyx nor petals had any such 
avGusT Ist, 1883. 
