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POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIa. 13 
jong and solitary axillary; hevtie tune emerging, yellow: 
petals scarcely distinguishable from the filaments; anthers 
internally adnate to the filaments. Capsule carnose, 
cells varying but corresponding with the number of rays 
an the stigma, at length spontaneously dividing, and so 
deviating from the character of a true berry. 
Species. 1.N. lutea. 2.advena. Calix unequal, pe- 
vicarp grooved. 3. Kulmiana. Calix 5-leaved equal, mar- 
gin of the stigma crenate. 4. sagittefolia. Leaves upon 
long subspiral peduncles; flowers as large as those of JV. 
lutea. v. v. Has. Near Savannah, in Geergia. 
An American genus with the eacegtens of WV. lutea, in- 
digenous also to Europe. 
569, NYMPH AGA. Smith. (Water-Lily.) — 
Calix 4 or 5-leaved. Petals _many, inserted 
upon the germ beneath the stamina. Stigma 
orbicular, radiated, sessile, nectariferous in the 
centre. Capsule carnose, many -celled, many- 
seeded, superior. 
Aquatic plants with the vegetation of the prec a 
fis; petals conspicuous, often antheriferous, never ye 
frequently white, rosaceous or red, in one species agi 
Spectes: 1. N.aléa. Around Detroit, Michigan Ter- 
ritory. v.v. 2. odorata. 
A splendid genus principally indigenous to India and* 
Europe, there is also one species in Siberia, another in 
China, the elegant and odorous ™. cerulea is the pro- 
duction of ‘the Cape of Good Hope. A rubra of India, 
which might be naturalized in the southern states, ex- 
ceeds almost every other aquatic in 
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€alix 7 to 9-leaved. Petals 14 to 18. Sta- 
ming definite, 14 to 18. Style trifid? Stigmas 
bifid. Capsule 3-celled, many-seeded. Seeds 
hining. 
A stemless succulent plant, with entire radical lenis 
ipa few-flowered; ——. white. Considerably allied 
the same natural order; are there not Gon eeegiia ts 
_ Place of one? is the capsule 3-celled, and not 3 or more 
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