TAXONOMY NYMPHAEA ODORATA. 



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The seeds of N. odorata may germinate immediately after escaping from the 

 fruit, or may remain dormant in cold water until the following spring; the first is 

 probably the case with fruits ripened before September I, the second with those 



Fio. fft.Nvmphaea (xlm-ala: Under side of leaf on left; upper surface on right; a,, sepal; li-d, outer, 

 median, and inner petals ; c, staminode ; /, outer, median, and inner stamens ; y, section of ovary at close of 

 flowering: period ; s, astomatic area. Natural size of leaf 80.9 era. X 33.6 cm. ; all reduced proportionately. 



ripened later. In both cases probably the first floating leaves are thrown up in the 

 summer after the seed was formed. I found great numbers of seedlings (var. minor) 

 in a pond south of Marlton, N. J., August 30, 1900, with only submerged leaves. The 

 first leaf is filiform, about 1.6 cm. long. The second is elliptic-oblong. Intermediate 



