LIST OF TEXT FIGURES. 



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Tail-piece. Guest at a feast, with lotus (after Wilkinson) i 



Figure I. Nefer Turn (after Wilkinson) 6 



2. Egyptian lotus (designs after Wilkinson) 7 



3. Pleasure boat in a pond of lotuses (after Wilkinson) 7 



4. " Faba Aegyptia." Facsimile from Matthiolus 15 



5. " Nymphaea alba." Facsimile from Lobelius 15 



6. Longitudinal section of root tip of N. caerulea 29 



7. True and false epidermis of roots 30 



8. Root of N. odorata, transverse section 32 



9. Contractile root of N. Aavo-virens, transverse section 33 



10. Vascular bundles of the roots of N. odorata 36 



1 1. Development erf air-canals 37 



12. Diaphragms in the air-canals of roots 38 



13. Rhizome of N. tuberosa 39 



14. Tubers 40 



15. Perennating body of N. mexicana 42 



i6j Rhizome of N. odorata; transverse section of internode 43 



17. Microscopic section of rhizome of N. odorata 44 



18. Caudex of N. caerulea; transverse section 46 



19. Cork formation at base of root scar 47 



20. Details of leaf scar 48 



21. Transverse section of caudex of N. flava SO 



22. Course of vascular bundles at node of Nymphaea flava 51 



23. Vascular system of stolon of N. rubra? at a node 52 



24. Stipules 55 



25. Collenchyma in petioles 57 



26. Sections of petioles and peduncles 59 



27. Types of vascular bundle 63 



28. Leaf of N. ftava 65 



29. Epidermis of leaf, N. tetragona 67 



30. Leaf of N. rubra, vertical section 68 



31. Arrangement of vascular bundles in veins of leaf 71 



32. Development of mucilage hair of N. alba 72 



33. Hairs and hair-bases 73 



34. First leaves from germinating tubers 75 



35. Transverse sections of petioles of water-leaves 76 



36. Floral diagram for Nymphaea 80 



37. Details of anther and stigma 84 



38. Pollen 85 



39. Diagram of ovary (Brachyceras) in longitudinal section 86 



40. Diagram of ovary in transverse section 86 



41. The aril 91 



42. Sections of outer cell-layer of testa (after Weberbauer) 92 



43. Distribution of vascular bundles from the chalaza (after Chifflot) 93 



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