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odorala, — the leaves suborbicialar, reddish beneath, the lobes nearly parallel ending in 

 sharp points, stamens appendiculate, the inner ones almost filiform. 



4. — C. TUBEEOSA, Greene. Torrey Bulletin, XV, p. 84. 



Nymphœa tuberosa, Paine, Catal. PI. Oneida, (1865). Gray, Manual, ed. 5, p. 56. 

 Watson, Bibl. Index, p. 39. 



The Nymphœa reniformis of Water's Flora Carolina, y>- 155, has not been determined. 

 Dr. Grray speaks of it (in Manual, ed. 5) as very obseure. Mr. Watson doubtfully refers 

 it, and De Condolle's plant of that name (described from a Carolina specimen of Fraser), 

 to tuberosa. Chapman, in the Southern Flora gives it, without comment, as a synonym of 

 odorata. Nelumbimn reniforme, Willd., Sp. PL, II, p. 1,260. Nymph, odorata, var. reniformis, 

 Tor. and G-r., Fl. N. A., I, i?. 5*7. Cyamus reniformis, Pursh, FL, p. 398. There appears to be 

 little doubt, from DeCandolle's descrix>tion (Syst. Nat. II, p. 55,) that Fraser's Carolina 

 plant, from which it was taken, Presque Ile, was of this species. Mr. Watson quotes as 

 synonyms, with a mark of doubt, N. mac/tlala and N. spiralis, Eaf. Med. Fl II, p. 45. 



Paine's Water Lily was first distinctly recognised in Oneida Lake, New York State 

 but has been found also by Prof. Macoun in the Bay of Quinte, and along the margin of 

 Lake Ontario, from Presque Ile eastward ; its distribution has not yet been fully traced 

 either in Canada or the United States, and, although it is said to be more southern in its 

 range than C. odorata, we should remember that the latter species x>robably extends, in 

 some of its forms, into South America. 



This sx^ecies of the American lakes had been long overlooked, or taken for a form of 

 odorata, from which it differs in the shape of the rootstock, and in having small lateral 

 tubers on the side of the larger ones. In cultivation, " the habit of pu.shing up its central 

 leaves above the water, and almost perpendicular to the surface, is a distinguishing 

 characteristic ; " but the flowers hardly differ from those of alba. (Miles, in The G-arden, 

 in which the species is figured.) In specimens collected on the Bay of Quinte, Aug. 15th, 

 1888, by Prof. Macoun, the leaves resemble those of alba, being thick and green on both 

 sides ; they are about as broad as long, but the petiole is inserted below the middle of 

 the lamina, which is strongly veined. 



5.— C. ELEGANS, Greene, Bulletin Torrey Bot. Club, March, 1888. 



Nymphœa elegans. Hook, in Bot. Mag., t. 4604, (1851). Lemaire, .Tard. Fleur., II, t. 180. 

 Walpers' Ann., IV, p. 159. E. E. Sterns, Bulletin Torrey Bot. Club, XV, p. 13, (1888). 



Mr. Sterns states that, in June, 1849, specimens were collected by Dr. Charles Wright 

 " in a pond near the head of the Leona EiA'er," in south-western Texas, which Dr. Grray 

 referred doubtfully to N. Mezicana. Zucc. ; one of the specimens sent to Sir William 

 Hooker, and a seedling plant, enabled him to describe it as a new species. After an 

 interval of forty years, specimens were received from Waco, in east-central Texas (col- 

 lected by Miss Trimble and Miss Wright), which Mr. tSterns took at first for a small form 

 of odorata, but, on careful examination and encjuiry, determined to be identical with the 

 long-lost elegans. The seeds he describes as globular (not oblong as in its ally), the sepals 

 purple-lined, and the petals with purple-blue tips. 



Mr. Thomas Moroug describes, in the Botanical G-azette, May, 1888, XIII, p. 124, a 

 supposed new Water Lily, under the name of C. Leibergi, (with a footnote name, Nympliœa 



