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flowers rise above the water under the influence of light, 

 and expand only during sunshine, in the middle of the 

 day. Towards evening they close and sink beneath the 

 surface. FL July. Perennial. 



2. JSTuPHAR (Yellow Water Lily). 



1. N. lutea (Common Yellow Water Lily). Stigma 

 with 14 20 rays, which do not extend to the margin. 

 Rivers and ditches, frequent. Much smaller than the 

 last in all its parts. Flower yellow, and nearly globose, 

 smelling like brandy, whence, in Norfolk, and other 

 parts of England, it is called Brandy-bottle. The Turks 

 prepare a cooling drink from the flowers, which they 

 call Pufer (a corruption of the ancient name Nouphar). 

 FL July. Perennial. 



2. N. pumila (Least Yellow Water Lily). Stigma 

 of 8 10 rays, which extend beyond the margin. 

 Much smaller than the preceding, from which it differs 

 principally in the toothed edge of the stigma. It grows 

 in several of the small Highland lakes. Fl. July, 

 August. Perennial. 



ORD. IY. PAPAYERACE^E. THE POPPY TRIBE. 



Sepals 2, soon falling off ; petals 4 ; ovary 1 ; stigma 

 rayed, or lobed ; capsule 1 -celled, many-seeded ; seeds 



Ovary of the Poppy. 



inserted on incomplete partitions, which radiate from 

 the sides of the capsule, but do not meet at the centre. 

 Herbaceous plants, abounding in a milky juice, which 

 is narcotic, and, under the names of Opium, Laudanum, 



