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NYMPHAEACEAE. ' 



Vol. II. 



Ovules very numerous on the walls of ihe ovary. Fruit a leathery several-seeded 

 berry. Seeds often shining, with the embryo enclosed in a sac at the base of the 

 fleshy endosperm. 



Five genera and about 45 species, widely distributed in fresh water. 

 Petals small or minute ; stamens hypogynous. 

 Petals large, numerous ; stamens epigynous. 



I. Nyntphaca. 

 2 Castalia. 



I. NYMPHAEA [Tourn.J L. Sp. PI. 510. 1753. 

 [NuPHAR Sibth. & Smith, Fl. Grace. Prodr. i : 391 1806.] 

 Aquatic herbs, with cylindric thick horizontal rootstocks, and large cordate leaves with 

 a deep sinus. Flowers showy, yellow, or sometimes purplish. Sepals 5-6, concave, thick. 

 Petals <=o, small, stamen-like, hypogynous. Stamens =c, hypogynous. Carpels 00, many- 

 ovuled. united into a coinpound pistil. Stigmas disciform, 8-24-radiate. Fruit ovoid, naked. 

 Seeds with endosperm. [Greek, water-nymph.] 



A. genus of about 8 species, natives of the north temperate zone. Type species : Nympliaea 

 hi lea L. 

 Leaves broadly ovate or oval. 



Leaves 5'- 12' long; stigma 12-24-rayed; petals truncate, fleshy. i, N. advena. 



Leaves 2'-^' long; stigma 7-10-raycd; petals spatulate. thin. 2. N.microphyila. 



Leaves narrowly ovate or ovate-lanceolate. 3. .V. sagittaefolia. 



I. Nymphaea advena Soland. Large 

 Yellow Pond Lily. Kelp. Fig. 1839. 



Nymphaea advena Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 226. 



Nuphar advena R. Er. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 3: 



295. 1811. 

 N, advena minor Morong, Bot. Gaz. 11: 167. 1886. 

 Floating and emersed leaves s'-i2' long, s'-p' 

 broad, ovate or orbicular-oval, thick, the sinus 

 2-$' deep, generally open ; submerged leaves, 

 when present, thin-membranous, nearly orbicu- 

 lar, otherwise similar; petioles, peduncles and 

 lower surfaces of the leaves often pubescent ; 

 flowers 1V-2V in diameter, depressed-globose, 

 yellow or tinged with purple ; sepals 6, oblong, 

 about I i" long; petals fleshy, oblong, truncate, 

 4"-5" long ; stamens in 5-7 rows ; anthers about 

 the length of the filaments ; stigmatic disc undu- 

 late, yellow, or pale red, rays 12-24; fruit ovoid, 

 not deeply constricted into a neck, lS'-2' long, 

 about i' thick. 



In ponds and slow streams, Labrador and Nova 

 Scotia to the Rocky Mountains, south to Florida, 

 Texas and Utah. April-Sept. Benver-root. Bon- 

 nets. Cow-, frog-, dog-, horse- or beaver-lily. Spatter-dock. Apparently consists of several races, 

 or, as hrre described, includes more than one species. 



Nymphaea rubrodisca (Morong) Greene, differing by fewer stigma-rays and spatulate petals, 

 admitted as a species in our first edition, is probably a hybrid between N. advena and A'', mierophylla. 

 Nymphaea fraterna Miller & Standley, recently described from the pine-barrens of New Jersey, 

 has smaller flowers and fruit than N. advena. 



2. Nymphaea mierophylla Pers. Small 

 Yellow Pond Lily. Fig. 1840. 



Nymphaea lutea var. Kalmiana Michx. Fl. Bor. 



Am. 1 : 311. 1S03. 

 Nymphaea mierophylla Pers. Syn. 2: 63. 1807. 

 Nuphar Kalmianum R Br. in .Ait. Hort. Kew. 



Ed. 2, 3 : 295. 181 1. 

 TV. Kalmiana Sims, Bot. Mag. pi. 1^43. 1809. 



Leaves 2'-4' long, I'-j' broad, the sinus 

 open or closed, commonly more or less 

 pubescent beneath ; submerged ones always 

 present, membranous, orbicular, larger; flow- 

 ers l' in diameter or less, yellow ; sepals S ; 

 petals thin and delicate, 2" long; stamens in 

 3 or 4 rows, narrowly linear, the anther one- 

 fourth the length of the filaments; stigmatic 

 disk crenate or stellate, 2"-3" broad, 6-7- 

 rayed, dark red ; fruit ovoid, 6"-y" long, 

 with a short neck. 



In ponds and slow streams, Newfoundland to 

 southern New York and Pennsylvania. Summer, 

 flowering later than the preceding. 



