282 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA* 



Edinburgh, and in the ifland of Li/more fplenti- 

 fully. b. VII. & VIII. 

 The petals are yellow, thin and flaccid, like thofc 

 of the poppy. 



■*** Flores poly pet ali, 



NYMPH.^A. Cyen. pi 653. 



Cor. polypetala. Cal. tetra feu pentaphyllus. Baccs 

 multilocnlaris truncata. 

 !fea I. NYMPHiEA foliis cordatis integerrimis, calyce 

 petalis majore pentaphyllo. Sp. pi. 729. (Blak- 

 ivell. t. 497. 498. b. 500. Ger. em. 819./. 2) 



Yellow Water-Lilly. Anglis. 



In lakes and ditches, but not very common. Sib- 

 bald and Dr. Farfons. r^. VIII. 



The leaves are imooth, plane, tough and pliant, 

 ten or twelve inches in diameter, and float upon 

 the furfacc of the water : the leaves of the Caiyx 

 are tough, and yellow witliin : the Petals are 

 yellow, much fmaller than the Calyx, in num- 

 ber from 14 to 20, furrow'd and crenated : the 

 Stamina are more numerous, at the fir(t expan- 

 lion of the flower adhering clofely to the fruit, 

 but afterwards are reflexed : the flower blooms 

 out of the water, but the fruit reverts and ripens 

 its feed under it. This fruit is of a pear-fliap'd, 

 or oval-conic figure, crowned with a flat radi- 

 f ated Difc or Stigma, conflfling of as many ray^. 

 as the fruit has cells, like as in the poppy. 



