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mucro 140 long, 45 broad at base. Fruit borne chiefly on the last 
division of the leaves, and sporophydia solitary, with few spirals; 
nucleus brown, with five rather prominent angles, 250-260 long, 
240-245 broad. Antheridia 170 in diameter, borne on the 
summit of the last division of the leaf. 
The old capsule of the nucleus seeis quite persistent, remain- 
ing adherent long after the coronula has fallen, and resembling 
brown parchment-like wings along the spiral angles of the 
nucleus, 
Plant gathered by the Rev. Thos. Morong, on the island of 
Nantucket, in a very muddy pool, July 21st, 1887. 
Plate LXXV., Fig 1.—Plant natural size, with the aumerous, 
crowded, axillary and terminal, contracted, fertile spikes; these 
fertile spikes generally arise within a verticil of sterile leaves, 
most of which whorl. 2, a portion of a fertile spike, x 25 diam.; 
on the lower verticil a leaf is twice divided, bearing on each 
division four mucronate terminals; on the upper verticil, once 
divided, with three terminals and fruiting organs. 3, the mu- 
cronate extremity of a leaf x 50 diam. 4, a nucleus with five 
angles x 25 diam. 
Bibliographical Notes on well known Plants.—lV. 
By EDWARD L. GREENE. 
NELUMBO LUTEA, Baillon, Hist. Pl. iii., 79 (1872). 
Cyamus luteus, Nutt., Gen. ii., 25 (1818). 
Nelumbium luteum, Willd. Spec. Pl. ii., 1289 (1799). 
Nymphaea Nelumbo, var. 8. Linn. Spec. Pl. 511 (1753). 
Books on the botany of the Atlantic States which have been 
written within the last fifty years, have all been perpetuating a 
Candollean mistake respecting the rightful name of this our grand- 
est water-lily ; for Velumbium, so far from being the oldest, is, 
in truth, the most recent of all, having been invented by Willde- 
now in 1799. Cyamus of Salisbury (1805), later in finding a 
modern application, is the ancient Greek name of the genus. 
For twenty years or more after Salisbury took it up, it was 
adopted, to the suppression of Ve/umbium, by authors as promi- 
nent as Smith, Nuttall and Barton; but the elder De Candolle 
