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Nypmh^ea Odor ata. Sweet-Scented 

 Water Lily. 



Clafs and Order, 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cor. polypetala. Cat. 4, feu 5-phyllus,, Bacca truncata muU 

 tilocularis, loculis polyfpermis. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 

 NYMPH jEA Gdorata; foliis cordatis integris emarginatis: 



lobis divaricatis acumine obtufo, calyce tetrar 



phyllo. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 227. Willd. Sp, PL 2, 



1152. 

 NYMPHiEA odorata. Bot. Repof. 297. 

 NYMPHiEA (alba) foliis orbiculato-cordatis, integris; fmu 



bafis angufto lateribus fubre&ilineis : flore albo: 



petalis calyci 4-phyllo aequalibus. Michaux Fl. 



Bor. Am. 1 . p. 3 1 1 ? 

 NYMPPLEA alba flore pleno odorato. Cron. Virg. ed. 1. f* 



57. ed. 2. p. 81. 

 NYMPH >EA alba minor. Gmel. Sib. 4. p. 184. t. 71. £** 



clufo fynonymo Morifoni. 



We have no doubt but that this plant is a very diftinft 

 fpecies from Nymphaa alba, to which it however approaches 

 very nearly. In the form of its leaves it is apt to vary con- 

 siderably, fo that perhaps a diftinguifhing charafter cannot be 

 well eftablifhed from this alone; probably a better one might 

 be found in the ftigma, the rays of which we believe are always 

 more erecl; and incurved. It is a native of North-America, 

 and is met with, according to Michaux, from Canada to 

 Carolina, for we have little hefitation in referring his alba to 

 this fpecies. Its flowers are very fweet-fcented, much like 

 thofe of Nymphaa carulea, in which it differs from Nymph-** 

 alba, the flowers of which are entirely fcentlefs. 



Our drawing was made at MefTrs. Whitley and Brame's* 

 Old-Brompton, from a plant that flowered in the ftove in the 

 month of Auguft 1801, out of the colleaion of the Marquis oi 

 Blandford. It is far lefs common than Nymphaa carulca, 

 requires the fame treatment, fuppofed to be not hardy enough 

 to bear our winters without protection from the frofi. 



