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of the outermost petals is channeled longitudinally with 
green and striped with dark purple. The sepals are pinkish 
white on the interior, externally strongly resembling the 
pistillate parent with its coloration dark green prominently 
striped with purple. The foliage is similar to the seed 
arent, the upper surface being dark green conspicuously 
blotched with dark purple, but the margins are more undu- 
lated than either parent. The under side is green, 
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Nymphaea “General Pershing:” 1, sepal; 2, petals; 3, 
submerged leaves of seedling; 4, first floating leaf; 5, sta- 
mens. One-half natural size. 
grading to greenish red toward the margins and spotted 
with a slightly darker color. Owing to the low percentage 
of developed seeds of the pistillate parents, very few seed- 
lings were obtained. However, the colors. of the progeny 
when flowered were all pink shades, showing the dominant 
factor of the pollen parent, N. castaliiflora. 
Description —F lowers 8-10 inches across, opening from 
4-6 successive days from 7:30 A. M. to 7:00 P. M. during 
August, extremely fragrant; bud ovate-acuminate, dark 
green, prominently striped with dark purple in the apical 
