1919] Fernald,— Nymphozanthus 183 
tall: basal leaves one to several, short-petioled, 1-2 dm. long, once 
ternate and imperfectly pinnate, the segments broad, obtusely serrate, 
on broadly winged rhachises, glabrate, thick and oily to the touch: 
cauline leaves small, glabrate, and less dissected, but the segments 
similarly broad, obtusely serrate, and with broadly winged rhachises: 
umbels several, 6-16-rayed: fruit obovate, emarginate, 8-13 mm. 
long.— Texas and Oklahoma. Texas: near Industry, 1895, H. 
Wurzlow (TYPE in U. S. Nat. Herb.); San Antonio, 1882, V. Havard, 
no. 234; Kerrville, Kerr Co., June 25, 1894, A. A. Heller, no. 1,669; 
limestone hill near Bracken, Bexar Co., July 1, 1903, B. H. A. Groth, 
no. 36; 1848, Charles Wright; Wright; Austin, 1919, G. A. Bahm; 
Bexar Co., G. Jermy; wet prairie, Houston, June 16, 1872, Elihu Hall, 
no. 257; near Houston, May 6, 1899, J. N. Rose, no. 4,900; Enchanted 
Rock, Gillespie Co., G. Jermy, no. 138; Fort Chadbourne, 1856, Dr. 
Swift; wet soil, San Leon, June 6, 1915, George L. Fisher, no. 1,535. 
OxrLAHOMA: Wichita Mountains, July 1852, Marcy’s Expedition; 
Muskogee, April 25, 1891, M. A. Carleton, no. 56. 
The writer is indebted to Mr. W. R. Maxon of the National Museum 
for the loan from the government collections of a series of specimens 
very helpful in clarifying the generic segregation here discussed. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
NYMPHOZANTHUS THE CORRECT NAME FOR THE 
COW LILIES. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
THE names of the water lilies have had an unfortunately disconcert- 
ing history, briefly summarized in Rnopona by Conard! who demon- 
strates that, after many decades of application to the white and pink 
water lilies, then a quarter-century of application to the cow lilies, the 
name Nymphaea really belongs, after all, to the white and pink water 
lilies to which it had so long and so appropriately been applied. 
Conard's most important reasoning, following an earlier discussion 
by Briquet,? was based on the fact that, long before others had generi- 
cally separated the European white water lily, Nymphaea alba L., 
from the European cow lily, N. lutea L., Linnaeus himself made the 
1 Conard, Ruopora, xviii. 161-164 (1916). 
? Briquet, Prodr. Fl. Corse, 577-599 (1910). 
