YELLOW POND-LILY 



often grows in such numbers as to impede a canoe or 

 a rowboat. Then, too, it figures as a disappointment 

 when the floating leaves lead to the hope that the White 

 Lily may be found, and one really finds only the up- 

 right stalks and the coarse yellow bowl of the Yellow. 



Yellow Pond-Lily. Nymphka ddvena 



The rigid flower gives the curious effect of being 

 a stunted blossom which had become deformed before 

 it had a chance to mature; it never seems quite open, 

 and it takes some time before one comprehends that 

 it will never open, that its convex sepals will never 

 spread, that its stamen-like petals will never give 

 themselves unreservedly to the sun. 



The flat top of the great pistil which is composed of 

 many carpels is either orange-red or yellow and 

 decorated with twelve to twenty-four rays radiating 

 star-Hke from the centre. The flowers exhale an 



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