No. 66. NELUMBIUM. 41 



have the same taste, are good equivalents ; such are 

 many species o£ Xepidinm^ Cardamine, Arahiz^ Sisym- 

 briunij Cochlearia^ &c. Those which have edible tube- 

 rous roots, like N. paUntre^ N. tuberosum^ Arabia tube- 

 rosa^ &c» ought to be cultivated, these roots being a 

 good condiment, somewhat like radishes, but milder ; 

 the root of N.palustre has a stronger taste, and has been 

 wrongly deemed injurious by some. 



No. 66. NELUMBIUM LUTEUM. 



Names 



Vul- 



gar. Yellow Water Lily, Pond Lily, Water Shield, 

 Water Nuts, Water Chincapin, Rattle Nut, Sacred 

 Bean, Lotus, &c. 



Classif. Nat. Order of Nymphacea. Polyandria Po- 

 lygynia L. 



Genus Nelumbium. Calix petaloid, four to six leaved. 

 Many unequal petals and stamina. Torus or receptacle, 

 turbinate, spongy, truncate, bearing above many pistils 

 immersed in cells, each pistil becoming a large nut. 

 RooU creeping^ hearing many radical pelt at ed leaves and 



uAiffi 



Nelumbium lutenm. W. Petioles and scapes terete 



and rou^h, leaves peltate, orbicular, entire, smooth, and 

 flat, calix five leaved^ unequal, many rows of elliptic 

 petals, exterior shorter, anthers appendiculated. 



DESCRIPTION- Roots perennial, creeping, cylin- 

 drical, brownish, white inside, fleshy and knobby. Leaves 

 radical, on long cylindrical rough and spongy petioles, 

 orbicular, entire, peltate, centre like a knavel, • a little 

 excentric, from which radiate many branched nerves 

 beneath j above of a fine green, perfectly smooth. Pe- 

 tioles from three to five feet long, limbus floating on the 

 water from six to twenty inches m diameter. Scapes uni- 

 flere, similar to the petioles, flower pale yellow, from six 

 to eight inches in diameter, and erect above water. Calix 

 small, with ovate obtuse folioles, corolla with many im- 



petal 



D 2 



ding 



