S?OLYAXDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 13 



lon.c^ancl solitary axillary: flowers larire. emerpring", yellow: 

 -petals scarce-ly (lislini^uisUable from the fiUiments; anthers 

 interiuilly adnata to the filaments. Capsule carnnse, 

 cells varyin<r but correspondiiit^ wiU) the number of rays 

 in the stig-ma, at length spontaneously dividing, and so 

 ■deviating from the characti^r of a true berry. 



Species. l.'S.Iutea. '2. advsna. Calix -.m equal, pe- 

 ricarp grooved. 3. Kahniana. Calix 5-leaved equal, mar- 

 gin of the stigma crenate. 4. sag-ittdefolia. Leaves upon 

 long subspiral peduncles; flowers as large as those of JV. 

 littca. V. V. Hab. Near Savannah, in Georgia. 



An American genus with the exceptioa of ^-V- hUeCf in- 

 digenous also to Europe. 



S69. NYMPIL'EA. Smith. (Water-Lily.) 



Calix 4 or 5 -leaved. Petals many, inserted 

 upon t!ie gcM'ni beneath tlic stamina. Stigma 

 orUicular, i-adiatcd, sessile, nectariferous in tiic 

 centre. Capsule carnose, many cellctl, many- 

 seeded, siiperior. 



Aquatic plants nith the vegetation of the preceding ge- 

 nus; petals conspicuous, ol'icn anthenferous, never \ellovv, 

 frequently white, rosaceous or red, in one species blue. 



Species. 1. N. aZ/;«. Around Detroit, Allcljigaii Ter- 

 ritory. V. V. 2. Ofloraia. 



A splendid genus principally indigenous to India and 

 Europe, there is also one species in Siberia, another m 

 t^hina, tf.e elegant and odorous JV*. ccemlca is tlie pro- 

 duction of the Cape of Good Hope. A*, rubra of India, 

 which might be naturalized in the southern slates, exr 

 coeds almost every oiher aquatic in magnificence. 



370. LEWISIA. Fuvslu 



Calix 7 to 9-leaved. Tdals 14 to 18. »S7^/- 

 mhia delinite, 14 to 18. Style trifid? Stigmas 

 bifid. Capsule 3-celled, many-seeded. Seeds 

 Jii:iing. 



A stcmlcss succulent plant, with entire radical leaves; 

 scapes few-flowered; flowers while. Considerably allied 

 to the genus Scmperviviim and appertaining apparently to 

 tiiC same natural crder; are there not 6 er more st}les in 

 place of on.e? is the capside 3-celkd, ap«d not 3 or more 



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