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PODOPHYLLACEX. Dc. 
24, Jeffersonia diphylla, Pers. —Alleghanies. 
25. Cabomba aquatica, Aubl.—N. Orl. (n. 10.) 
26. Hydropeltis purpurea, Mich.— Covington, Louisiana. 
NYMPHEACE. DC. 
27. Nelumbium /uteum,* Willd.—Covington (Leaf only). 
—This superb aquatic, which, strange to say, is unknown in 
the gardens of our country, grows as far north as the latitude 
of Kentucky, whence I have beautiful specimens from Mr. 
Townsend. 
28. Nympheea odorata, Ait.—N. Orl. (n. 11.) 
29. Nuphar advena, Ait.—Jacksonville. 
* Dr. Short of Kentucky writes me word, in respect to the Cyamus 
luteus; “I have once met with it in all its glory in a small lake near the 
Cumberland river in this State, and in that very section of it which I 
design to visit next summer. The plant, however, is so luxuriant, and its 
flowers so large and suceulent, that I should fear their preservation will 
be extremely difficult, if not impossible, in any perfection. A somewhat 
curious circumstance, respecting this plant, presented itself to me not 
long since. As just observed, I never saw it growing but once; and 
then two hundred miles west of this place; nor have I heard of its being 
met with any where else in this region. On the Ohio river, a hundred 
miles north of Lexington, my brother owns a considerable tract of land, a 
piece of which adjoining the river was subject to inundation, and in a 
shallow basin of 50 acres or more, the water remained throughout the 
year. "Twenty years ago this basin was drained, sown in grass and is now 
a productive meadow,—the upper stratum being a tough, whitish clay. 
In ploughing this piece of ground lately, immense quantities of the seeds 
of the Cyamus were turned up from among the clay in which they were 
embedded to a considerable depth; they are perfectly sound and hard, 
requiring much effort to break them open, and exhibiting, within, the coty- 
ledons and embryo, full, plump, and apparently fresh: —none of them, how- 
ever, manifest the slightest disposition to vegetate. The plant has certainly 
not grown there for twenty years ; and the oldest resident of the neighbour- 
hood has no recollection of having ever seen it." 
