44 NYMPHEA. No. 6r. 



valued, even in our country; children, negroes and Indians 

 collect them for use under the name of water chineapins. 

 They are as good as filberts and chesnuts even raw, 



cooling, and rather laxative; but still better when roasted* 

 The Chinese make preserves with thenu They are said 

 to check emesis|and diarrhoea, to produce diuresis and be 

 anti-erotic. The leaves are very cooling and emollient 

 applied to the head and skin; tlie upper surface can 

 never be wetted, water runs out of it like quicksilver: 

 those of the iV. codophyllum are used as a kind of cool 

 hat by hunters and negroes: they hold rain water pure for 

 a while in their hollow. 



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No. 67. NYMPHEA ODORATA. 



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Naifius. Sweet Water Lily. Ft, Nenuphar odorant. 



Vulgar. White Pond Lily, Toad Lily, Cow Cabbage, 

 Water Cabbage. 



Classif, Nat. Order Nymphacea. Polyandria monogy- 

 nia, L. 



Genus Nymphea. Calyx four or five leaved, many 



petals in several rows inserted on the torus as well as 



the many stamina. Torus rounded, radiated above, with 



a central hollow and tubercle, becoming a many-celled 



spongy berry, containing many polypermous cells like 



membranaceous follicles. Leaves radical, scapes uni- 

 flote. 



Sp. Nymphea odoraia. Smooth, leaves orbicular, 

 base split, lobes acuminate, calyx four leaved, equal to 

 the petals, which are unequal white, elliptic, obtuse* 



BESCRIPTION. Roots perennial, creeping, rough 

 and blackish, thick and knotty. Petioles semiterete, 

 one to six feet long, spon^ or fi'lled with oblong tubes: 

 leaves floating on the surface of water, nearly round and 

 ?»tire, with a cleft at the base, subpeltate, lobes ending 

 m short acuminate points: upper surface glossy with- 

 out veins, lower redish, with radiating nerves. Petioles 

 rlfvt^ur^^^ bearing one large white floating flower, 

 while ^th/r' T^\ ^^^^"S obtuse folioles, green outside. 



