Nelumho NYMPHAEAC— RANUNCULAC. Ranunculus 



Nelumbo Adans. 



N. pentapetala (Walt.) Fernald. (N. lutea (Willd.) Pers.) Ameri- 

 can Lotus. 



Rare; ponds and slow streams: St. Jones Creek, 23^ miles below 

 Dover (NC), Commons in 1863 (A); same locality, R. R. Tatnall, 

 965, 3 Aug. 1930 (T, G, P). Late July, Aug. 



Said to grow also in Drawyers Creek, below Shallcross Lake 

 (NC), (Otis), and in Moore's (Wiggins) Pond, 1 mi. n. w. of Town- 

 send (NC), (C. J. Speel); no specimens seen from either of these 

 localities. Reported in bloom, Aug. 1945, in the southwestern end 

 of McGinnis Pond, 2 mi. e. of Canterbury (K), by H. R. Baker. 



Brasenia Schreb. 



B. Schreberi Gmel. (B. peltata Pursh) Water Shield. 



Infrequent throughout, in ponds and slow streams. Early 

 June, July. 



RANUNCULACEAE (Buttercup Family) 



Ranunculus L. Buttercup. Crowfoot. 



R. longirostris Godron. (R. circinatus Sibth.) Stiff Water 

 Crowfoot. 

 Rare, in slow streams and ditches. New Castle County : ditches 

 near Edgemoor, E. Tatnall, May 1859 (D) ; Cherry Island Marsh, 

 Wilmington, Commons, several collections from 1863 to 1879 (A); 

 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, near Delaware City, Tatnall & 

 Commons, 21 June 1897 (D, A). 



R. flabellaris Raf . (R. delphinifoUus Tott. See Fernald : Rhodora 

 38, 171. 1936.) 

 Rare, in ponds and river bottoms of the Coastal Plain: pond near 

 Ogletown (NC), E. Tatnall, "between 1836 and 1840" (A), and in 

 1842 (D) ; cypress swamp bordering Pocomoke River, 2 mi. s. w. of 

 Libertytown (Wo), R. R. Tatnall, 4248, 10 June 1939 (T). 



R. ambigens Watson. (R. oUusiusculus Raf.) Water-plantain 

 Spearwort. 

 Infrequent, in ponds, ditches and swampy woods of the Coastal 

 Plain, in New Castle, Cecil, Kent (Del.) and Caroline Counties. 

 June, mid-July. 



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