ON NYMPILEACE.E. Ill 



White Water Lily of Euglaud. Weisse Seerose of Willdeuow, and other German 

 authors. 



Extends, in Avarions forms, over nearly the whole of Europe, Algeria, etc. 



Var. MINOR. Nymphœa alba ft minor, (Besl., Moris.), Willd., Sp. PI., II, j). 1153. DC, 

 Syst. Nat. ; Prod., I.e. Ledebonr, Fl. Eossiea, I, p. 84. 



Russia. Alsace. 



Flowers half the size of the normal form, leaf-lobes spreading-, with an open space 

 between. 



Var. PAITCIRADIAÏA. Nymphœa paudradiata. '' Bnnge in Ledeb., Fl. Allaica, 11, p. 

 2Ï2." Ledeb., Fl. Eossiea, I, p. 84. 



Iiiver Beknn, an allhient of the Irtiisch, between the Altai and Ural Mountains. 



Ni/mphœa paudradiata, so far as indicated in Flora Eossiea, is certainly very closely 

 related to aJbu. and can hardly be treated as a distinct species, and yet in some of its 

 characters it approaches the Canadian in/ora/a; the leaf-lobes are described as less closely 

 approximate than in alba, and the lateral veins beneath canaliculate (plane in alba), 

 stigma less than nine-rayed, petals obti\se (whilst in alba they are acute). There is also, 

 closely related to this form (according to Dr. Caspary's observations) N. biradiata, Som- 

 merauer, (Bot. Zeitung), described in Koch's Flora Germanica, I. p. 20, the leaf-lobes 

 spreading, with rounded sinus-margius, stigma 5-10-rayed. The Bohemian N. Candida, 

 Presl (Eostinar), with an ovate-conical, smooth, naked ovary (only its lower third part 

 hid by the petals and stamens), may also be referred here. " Presl, Delicise Pragenses, 

 p. 224," (1822). Koch, Fl. Germ., I, p. 2!V 



Several garden varieties are grown : — 1. Var. ro^ea. In a paper in The Garden, 

 (London), XXIII, pp. 334-336, (1883), it is stated that this variet^^ sometimes called 

 splucrocarpa and Casparyi, " a native of northern Europe, as far north as Sweden," was 

 figured in that work (XV), having flowered at Kew in 1818. Mr. Frank Miles writes in 

 the Garden of the same variety as A'ar. rubra, " obtained ten years ago (he is writing in 

 1885) throns-h Messrs. Henderson, of Professor Agardh, of Lund University, Sweden, 

 from the University Botanic Garden ; . . . two out of three seedlings are red like the 

 parent. . . . The exact locality of this variety is not known, as Professor Agardh did 

 not wish it to be exterminated " (The Garden, XXVIII, p. 653.) '2. Var. candidissimu 

 is described in the same paper, " a large, xJure, white-flowered form, very lloriferous, with 

 flowers twelve inches in diameter when well'exx^anded." 3. Var. Cashmeeriana is either 

 identical with, or closely resembles, the preceding. 



Not without hesitation, I add the following synonym, being doubtful whether it may 

 indicate a mixed nominal species or be referable to C. alba or C. ielragona : — 



N. nitida, " Sims, in Bot., Mag., t. 1359." Smith, Eees's Cyc. XXV. DC, Syst., II, p. 

 58. Prod., I, p. 116, Ledebour, Fl. Eoss., I, p. 84. Said by A. P. DeCandolle to be allied 

 to odorata and alba, — rhizome perpendicular, branched, leaf-auricles obtuse, sinus narrow, 

 points slightly spreading, veins impressed, lateral nerves plain on both sides, flowers in- 

 odorous, petals obtuse. On the other hand, the plant in cultivation in England, under 



1 For details in regard to tlie relations of these and other varieties, see Dr. Robert Caspary's Obseivations in 

 Appendix to Index Hort. Be.rol., 1855, and Walpers' Annates, iv. 162-166. 



