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2.Nymphaea. Pond Lily, 
Perennial aquatics with usueily creeping rootstocks.,. Leaves floati 
sometimes emersed, With a deep, narrow sinus in ours, on long slender se 
petioles. Sepals 4, green. Petals numerous, in several series, showy, < 
passing into staminodia. Stamers numerous, epigynous. Ovary many chambered: 
the stigmas disclike, radiating- Pod spongy, maturing under water. Seeds.a% 
with a membranous aril. 2 ees 
1. Ne tetragona Georgi. Rootstock short, woolly; leaves tufted at the apexi!7 
of the rootstock, the petioles 2.5-4 mm. in diameter," blades obovate to oval 4 
in outline, the sinus half the i@neth of lade or more, the margins .of 
the sinus straight, the angle gcute, tue lobes acute, veins radiating from. # 
the center, dichotomously 1-5 forked from the middle or below; -peduncies> ¥ 
somewhat stouter than.the.petioles; sepals oblong, 3-3.5 cm. long,. green on “3 
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the back, petals white, ¥ 
pals; 5s 
2 
_ shorter than the se samens about 20, the anthers sbout half the length j 
of the filaments, subulate; pistil urceolate, the disc concave and umbonate , J 
%-lobed, the lobes recurved; fruit not seene : 
—— + (Castalia Jifapergii Morong; 
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whi Uta proved > 
In a small pond "just east" (now west) of Granite Sta., along, the 
. ’ 9 
‘ 47 
N.PeReR., Leibergs jindtroduced from Asia by Chinese laborers 
on the Northern Pacific R.Re who were camped at this point, The plants, Bi 
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we believe, have long since disappeared, ly dane atu ) AMR Wat found. 
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