16 POLYAXDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Tilia. 



called Brandy-bottles in Norfolk. They perhaps communicate 

 this flavour by infusion to the cooling liquors, or Sherbets, so 

 much used in the Levant. The seed-vessel, a coated beiTtj, 

 w^hen ripe, bursts irregularly, as Prof. Hooker well observes, 

 not dissolving avi'ay into a mass of pulp like the Nymphcea. 

 Linnaeus once considered these plants as monocotyledonous, but he 

 afterwards corrected that ill-founded opinion, and the question 

 is set at rest by Prof. Hooker's complete figures. Yet they indu- 

 bitably belong to M. Richard's class of Endorrhizce, having an 

 internal radicle 3 and they afford in fact one, among many 

 instances, of this ingenious physiologist's two great classes, En- 

 dorrhizce and ExorrhizcB, not corresponding uniformly with the 

 Monocotyledones and Dicotyledones of other botanists, as it is 

 much to be wished they could have done. All these difficulties 

 however, in able hands, must gradually lead to truth. 



2. N. pumila. Least Yellow Water-lily. 



Calyx of five leaves. Border of the stigma toothed. Foot- 

 stalks two-edfjed. Lobes of the leaves rather distant. 



N. pumila. Hoffm. Germ, for 1800. 241. Wahlenh. Lapp. 151. 



DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 61 , Hook. Lond. t. 165. 

 N. minima. Etigl. Bot. v. 32. t. 2292. 



N. lutea |3, pumila, '* Timm in Mug.fiirNat. Mecklenb. v 2. 256." 

 N. lutea /3, minima, Willd. Sp. PL v. 2. 1 15 1 j from the author. 

 N. Kalmiana. Hook. Scot. 169, but not of other writers. 



In the highland lakes of Scotland. 



In the lake at the foot of Ben Cruachan. Mr. Borrer. In several 

 other Scottish lakes. Hooker. 



Perennial. July. 



Much smaller than the preceding. Footstalks less convex beneath, 

 and more concave above. Leaves about 3 inches long, shining 

 at the back 5 their lobes not close together. Fl. lemon-coloured, 

 tinged with green, scarcely 1^ inch wide, and essentially distin- 

 guished by the green sharply notched border of the stigma, 



Timm is no authority for the above name, as he confounded this 

 most distinct species with lutea ; but I gladly concur with the 

 writers who have adopted that given by Hoffmann, which, 

 though I overlooked it, is prior to mine. Priority in nomencla- 

 ture is a just claim ; but neither that, nor any authority, should 

 be allowed in favour of an unscientific, erroneous, or illiterate 

 appellation, whether specific or generic. I have in general si- 

 lently rejected such, avoiding controversy, and leaving the de- 

 cision to those who may hereafter care about the matter. 



268. TILIA. Lime-tree. 



Linn. Gen. 267. Juss. 292. Fl.Br.57]. Sm. in Rees's Cycl, 

 V. 35. Tourn. t. 38 1 . Lam. t. 467. Gcertn. t. 1 13. 



