1 86 The Waterlilies. 



Plants from Raquette Lake, N. Y., differ a little from the New Jersey form ; the 

 leaves tend more to an ovate shape, with overlapping sinus and slightly produced lobes ; 

 in 30 to 180 cm. of water. The flowers have a slightly larger number of organs. 



Introduced into England by Pursh as N. odorata rosea in 1812. 



Var. rosea Pursh. 



Flowers of medium size, 8 to 10 cm. across, deep pink, or red; when closed, 

 after once blooming, the sepals remain spread out horizontal on the water. Leaves 

 12 cm. in diameter, deep crimson beneath, dark purplish-green above; primary veins 

 about 7 on each side; length of principal area: radius of leaf = i: 1.2 to 1.26; sinus 

 open, angles somewhat produced. 



Nymphaea odorata var. rosea, Pursh 1814, fid. specimen coll. Pursh 1808, in Bass and Wading 

 Rivers, in hb. Kew. Garden 1883 b. Tricker 1897. Conard 190 1 a. 



N. odorata minor fioribus roseis, Hooker 1883, marked N. odorata var. rubra on the type in hb. 

 Kew; raised in Kew Garden from plants sent by A. Gray. 



N. rosea, Rafinesque 1830. Donn 1831. 



N. sanguinea, Donn 1831 ? 



Castalia odorata forma rosea, Britton 1889 a; 1890. Millspaugh 1893. 



C. odorata rosea, Britton, etc., 1894. Britton & Brown 1897. 



N. odorata rubra, Rev. Hortic. 1881 b. Wittmack 111. Gartenztg., 1882, p. 367. 



Geographic Distribution. Cape Cod; Barnstable, Mass. (Gray 1889); Lan- 

 caster, Mass. Cape May County, N. J. ; Woodstown, Salem County, N. J. ; Man- 

 chester, Ocean County, N. J. (Britton 18890). Buffalo, Putnam County, W. Va. 

 (Millspaugh 1893). Rare and local. 



Notes. Millspaugh gives the following remarkable account of the Buffalo sta- 

 tion : " On a plat of low bottom land near Buffalo, Putnam County, W. Va., the plough 

 turns up a large number of small tubers each season that the soil is cultivated. These 

 planted in tubs produce, much to the astonishment of the neighborhood, beautiful deep- 

 pink waterlilies. How long this bottom has been drained is not known, but the evi- 

 dence adduced by the fact above stated of the existence of a pond here, certainly over a 

 century ago, is very interesting, as is also the light thrown upon the distribution of 

 this pretty form of waterlily." 



The plants in cultivation are said to have sprung from a single original specimen. 



Var. gigantea Tricker. (Fig. 69.) 



Distinguished by large size in all its parts. Flowers less odorous than in the type; 

 sepals mostly green. Leaves turned up around apical part of margin. 



N. odorata var. gigantea, Tricker 1897. Conard 1901 a. 



N. reniformis, Walter 1788? DeCandolle 1821 b. Donn 1831. Not Gray 1889. 



Castalia reniformis, Nash 1895, fid. original specimens. 



C. tuberosa, Lloyd & Tracy 1901 ? MacCarthy 1885 ? 



N. odorata var. chlorhisa, Rafinesque 1830? 



N. spiralis, Rafinesque 1830 (excluding synonyms). 



N. Maximiliani, Lehmann 18530, as to the flower; leaf is of N. tenerinervia ; fid. specimen from hb. 



Lehmann in hb. Berlin. 

 N. Parkeriana, Lehmann 1853 a; 1854. Watson 1894. Conard 1901 a. Fid. specimens coll. Parker 



in British Guiana, from hb. Lehmann in hbb. Kew, Berlin. 

 AT. Pringlei, Rose MS., coll. Pringle, Plantae Mexicans: 1896, No. 6464, from Lake Xochimilcho 



= A r . tussilagifolia, Pringle 1897? 



