32 (iEOLOOir.VI, SURVEY OF CANADA. 



\:\\\ minor, Sims. Losmm- NVatcr lily. 



A', o</<•n^^^ var. rosrn. I'nrsli, 'M\9. 

 .V. mill,,,: IM\ II.M.k. Kl. I.. ;•,'_'. 



In a small Uikv MHilhoast of Marmtna N'illa^c. Hastings, Co., Ont. ; 

 Sr»u(li Lake, Townsliip (»l'Sii()\vtl()ii. IV'd'rboro' Co., <)iit. Rar*'. Rasil}' 

 known l)V its vcrv small llowors and leaves. 



30. NUPHAR, Smith. lYELLOW POND-LILY.) 



(9').) N. ad vena, Ait. Common Yellow Water-lily. 



yi/iiij)ltaa adntid, Michx. Fl. I., 311. 



Xiiphdr Anuricava, Provancber, Fl. Can., 28. 



\ eiy abuntlant in ponds, ditehes ami rivers from Nova Scotia and 

 New Brunswick, througli (Quebec and Ontai'io and westward by the 

 forest country to the Roek}' Mountains, also on the Athabasca River 

 north of Lat. 5T°. Caribou, Labrador. (Butler.) West Coast of New- 

 foundland. (./. Bell.) 



(96.) N. polysepalum, Engelm. Western Pond-lily. 



Swamp Creek, on the height. of land between the Fraser and 

 McLeod's Rivei', northern British Columbia, LST5. (Macoun.) Lakes 

 near 1 Igatcho Lake, B.C. {Dawson.) 



(97. N. luteum, Smith. Yellow Pond-lily. 



Found dui'ing the tirst Jonruc}" of Sir .Tohn Franklin, in the 

 wooded country Lat. 54°-64°. {.Bichard.soii.) In the summer of 

 1881, Dr. Robert Bell gathered a few specimens which I refer to this 

 species in Lake Wabatongwashene, noi-th of Lake Superior. Brome 

 Lake, Eastern Townships, Q. {McGUl Coll. Herb.) Sitka. (Rothr. 

 Alaska.) 



Var. (?) Fletcher's Fl. Ott. 



This form, found in the Ottawa River, near Ottawa cit}', Mr. Fletcher, 

 after a careful examination of his sjDecimens, and particularly the fruit, 

 came to the conclusion was '•' merely a hybrid between i\" advena and 

 N. Kalmiana." To decide the question he sent both living and dried 

 specimens to Professor R. Casparry, Director of the Botanic Gardens, 

 Konigsberg, the highest authority on Nuphar, whose answei" was as 

 follows : " I have not the slightest doubt but that your Nuphar is N. 

 advena-\- Kalmiana. It is intermediate between the two, and w^hat is 

 decisive is this — its pollen is very bad ; no less than 95 per cent, of the 

 grains in the specimens sent had no fovilla. N. advena and Kalmiana 



