LIST OF SEEDS, BULBS, TUBERS, ETC. 125 
N. Reniformis—(D. C. Tuber-bearing W.) :— 
Leaves reniform-orbicular, mostly larger (8—15 
wide} and more prominently ribbed than the 
last, rarely purplish beneath ; rootstock bearing numer- 
ous spontaneously detaching often compound tubers ; 
flowers scentless (or with a slight odor as of apples), 
white, never pinkish, 4$—9' in diameter, the petals 
proportionally broader and blunter than in N. 
odorata (sweet-scented water-lily); the fruit more 
depressed and with fewer, but much larger 
(i. e., twice as broad) globular-ovoid seeds, which when 
mature are barely enclosed by the aril and not stipitate. 
N. Tuberosa, Paine. Lakes, slow rivers, etc. Western 
New York, from Oneida Lake (Paine), and near Mead- 
ville, Pa., to Michigan, Eastern Nebraska and probably 
in the Southern States. July, September. 
NupHaAr, Smith.—Yellow Pond Lily. 
N. adventa (Ait f.):—Sepals six, unequal; petals 
shorter than the stamens and resembling them; thick 
and fleshy, truncate; stigma nearly entire, twelve to 
twenty-four rayed, pale red; ovary and _ fruit 
(14 long) ovate, not contracted above into a 
narrow neck (6—12’ long) from roundish to 
ovate or almost oblong, the sinus open, or closed or 
narrow. Very common in still or stagnant water ; stout 
and coarse; flower often partly purplish. Variety 
Variegatum. 
N. Kalmianuim, Ait.:—Very slender and with slen- 
der rootstock; submersed leaves thin, round-reniform, 
the floating broadly elliptical with a deep narrow sinus, 
2—4' long; sepals usually five, the flowers an 
inch broad or less; petals spatulate or obovate; stig- 
mas seven-ten rayed, dark red; fruit globular, with 
