Nymphcea. NYMPH.EACE.E. 75 



N. lutea, Pers. (Water Chinquapin, Wankapin.) Petals pale or dingy yellow, obtuse : 

 auther-tip linear-clavate : peduncles minutely or obscurely niuriculate and petioles little 

 more so : leaves usually raised high out of water, a foot or two in diameter, on petiole 2 

 to 6 feet long. — Syn. ii. 92; Casp. 1. c. 134; Baill. Hist. PI. iii. 79, f. 79-81.^ Nelumbium 

 luteum, Willd. Spec. ii. 1259; Michx. Fl. i. 317; DC. Syst. ii. 46; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 56; 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3753; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 98, t. 40, 41. N. Jamaicense, DC. iSyst. ii. 47. 

 N. speciosum, Ait. f. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 332, in part. N. pentapetulum, Willd. 1. c. ; DC. 1. c. 47. 

 N. codophi/l/iim, Raf. Fl. Lud. 22; DC. 1. c. Ni/mphcea Nelnmho, var., L. Spec. i. 511. 

 N. Nelnmho & N. pentapetitia, Walt. Car. 155, and even also N. reniformis, as to the fruit, 

 therefore NelumhiiDn reiiiforme, Willd. and Cyamus reniformis, Pursh. Ci/amus flavicomus, 

 Salisb. I.e.; Pursh, Fl. ii. 398, with C. pentapetalus. Cyamus htteus, Barton, Fl. Philad. 

 ii. 26, & Fl. N. Am. ii. 77, t. 63. — In shallow or rather deep water, S. Connecticut- (prob- 

 bably of Indian introduction). New Jersey, Big Sodus Bay, L. Ontario, and Michigan to 

 Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas ; fl. summer. (W. Ind., E. S. Am.) ^ 



4. NYMPH^A, Tourn. Water-Lily. (The classical name, dedicated 

 to the water nymphs.) — Thick prostrate and creeping or tuberous rootstocks, 

 sending up long petioles and scapes ; the rounded leaves with deep sinus at base. 

 Flowers showy, mostly fragrant, and opening at or before dawn day after day, 

 closing toward evening, commonly produced all summer ; the fruit maturing 

 under water. —Inst. 2G0, t. 137, 138; L. Gen. no. 421; Smith, Prodr. Fl. 

 Grsec. i. 360, &c. Oastalia, Salisb. Farad. Loud. 14, & Ann. Bot. ii. 71.^ 



§ 1. Carpels uncombined, except dorsally with the common parietes of the 



compound pistil, and ventrally with the axis. — § Lytopleura, Casp. 



N. ampla, DC. Rootstocks short and tulieriferous : leaves of orbicular or round oval out- 

 liue, acutely dentate, thickish, very prominently costate and reticulate-veiny underneath : 

 petals white, lauceolate-oblong, 2 or 3 inches long : connective of autliers prolonged into a 

 linear tip: fruit much depressed; seeds very small, subglobose (half line long). — Syst. ii. 

 54 (mainly) ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4469 ; Gray, PI. Wriglit. i. 7 ; Casp. 1. c. 156, t. 28-30.5 — 

 Southern liorders of Texas, Wright. (Adj. Mex. and W. Ind. to Brasil.) 



§ 2. Carpels combined throughout into a many-celled compound ovary. — § Sym- 



■phytopleura, Casp. 



* Flowers tinged with blue or violet : connective of the outer anthers produced into an 

 oblong appendage. 

 N- elegans, Hook. Petioles and scapes slender, from a short rootstock : leaves entire or 

 barely repand (3 to 6 inches long) of broadly oval or roundish outline with very narrow 

 sagittiform sinus and basal terminations .slightly or not at all pointed : petals ovate-lanceo- 

 late, hardly inch and a half long : stamens apparently in phalanges (Hook.) : stigmatic rays 

 about 15, the radiate appendages very short. — .Bot. Mag. t. 4604, not Hemsl. Biol. Cent.- 

 Am. Bot. for the plant of Bourgeau must be N. Mexicana, Zucc. N. Mexicana ? Gray, 

 PI. Wright, i. 7, not Zucc.^ — W. Texas, in a pond near the head of the Leona, Wright J 

 (Monterey, Mex., Berlandier?) 



1 Also Gray, Bull. Torr. Club, xiv. 228. 



2 Since reported from Osterville, Mass., W. G. Farlow, Bull. Torr. Club, xii. 40. 



8 The oriental N. nucifera, Gaertn., with wliite or pink flowers, has not infrequently been planted 

 for ornament, and is established in certain localities in New Jersey. See Sturtevant, Gard. & For. ii. 

 172, 173. 



4 For full generic synonymy according to strict priority see Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, xiv. 257, xv. 

 84, and Britten, Jour. Bot. xxvi. 6. Tlie names here retained, however, are those established by long 

 usage, confirmed by recent publications by the Kew botanists and by Prof. Caspary in Engl. & Prantl. 

 Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 2, 1-10. 



5 Add syn. Castnlia amphi, Salisb. Ann. Bot. ii. 73. 



6 Add syn. Castalia elegans, Greene, 1. c. 85. 



7 Rediscovered near Waco, Texas, by Misses Trimble & Wright, 1888; see Sterns, Bull. Torr. 

 Club, XV. 13; also collected in same year near Brownsville by C. G. Pringle. 



