5:: WATKR LILV FAMILY. 



§■2. Sepals and petals tiuDicrou.i, in seieral rows and pussinr) into r<i<-li other. Sta 

 mens many. I'i.itils Kereral, each snnken in the ohconirul mi, I iimrti/jlat -topped 

 receptacle, the imbedded init-like friiitu appearing like seeds in separate open 

 cells. 



3. XELl'MBO. L'i)iK'r part of the receptacle enlar<red into a top-shaped body, bearing a 



dozen or more ovaries, each tipped with a fiat gtigmii and separate!}- imuu-rscd in as 

 many hollows. (Lessons, p. 113. Fig-. 362.) In fruit these form 1-seeded nuts, resem- 

 bling small acorns. The whole kernel of the seed is enibryo, a pair of deshy and fari- 

 naceous cotyledons inclosing a plumule of 2 or 3 rudimentary green leaves. 

 § 3. Sepals 4-6. Petals and stamens numerous in many rows. Pistil 1 , compound. 



4. NYMPH JEA. Sepals 4, green outside. Petals numerous, many times 4, jiassing some- 



what gradually into the numerous stamens (Lessons, p. S4, Fig. 22S) ; both organs 

 grow attached to the globular many-celled ovary, the. foi-mer to its sides which thoy 

 cover, the latter borne on its depressed summit. Around a little knob at the top of 

 the ovary the numerous stigmas radiate as in a poppy-head, ending in long and narrow 

 incurved lobes. Fruit like the ovary enlarged, still covered by the decaying persistent 

 ba.ses of the petals ; numerous seeds cover the partitions. Ripe seeds each in an aril- 

 lus, or bag, open at the top. (Lessons, p. 126, Fig. 41S.) Embryo, like that of Xelumbo 

 on a very small scale, but inclosed in a bag, and at the end of the kernel, the rest of 

 which is mealy albumen. 



5. NUPIIAE. Sepals usually 6 or 5, partly green outside. Petals many small and thickish 



bodies inserted under the ovary along with the very numei-ous short stamens. Ovary 

 naked, truncate at the top, which is many-rayed by stigmas, fleshy in fruit ; the inter- 

 nal structure as in Xymph»a, only there is no arillus to the seeds. 



1. CABOMBA. (Name aboriginal?) 



C. Caroliniana, Gray. Flowers 6"-8" broad on long axillary stalks, 

 with ye'llmv .sjKits at base of petals. Ponds, S. 111. and S. 



2. BRASENIA, WATER SHIELD. (Name unexplained.) One species. 



B. peltata, I'ursli. In still, rather deep water; stems rising to the 

 surface, slender ; leaves 'I'-o' long, long-petioled ; flowens small, produced 

 all summer. 



3. NELUMBO. (The Ceylonese name for X. Indica.) 



N. Ititea, Pers. Yellow N. or Water Ciiixqiaimn. S. Conn, (in- 

 trnducecl by Indians perhaps) to Lake Ont., Minn., K. Xeb., and S. 

 Flower pale dull yellow, 5'-8' across ; anthers hook-tipped ; leaf and 

 flower-stalks sparsely warty roughened. Tlie leaves are very large (1^- 

 2^^ acro.ss) and centrally peltate, with an ascending limb, and raised high out 

 of the, water. 



N. indica, Pers. (or Nelumbiu.m speciosim). Falsi: Lotus, Sacred 

 Bean of the Orient, now commonly cult., has pink flowers and blunt 

 anthers, and the liigh flower and leaf-stalks studded with i)rickly warts. 



4. NYMPHiEA, WATER LILY, POXD LILY. (Dedicated to the 

 water nymphs.) Long pro.strate rootstocks, often as thick as one's 

 arm, send up floating leaves (rounded and with a narnnv cleft nearly 

 or quite to the petiole) and large handsome flowers, produced all sum- 

 mer ; these close in the afternoon ; the fruit ripens under water. 



* WMte-flowerc'il ; native in N. States. 



N. odorata. Ait. WinxE W. Flower very sweet-scented, white, or 

 sometimes pinkisli, rarely pink-red, variable in size, 2'-G' broad ; petals 

 obtuse ; leaves -i'-O' broad ; seeds oblong ; rootstocks with few and per- 

 sistent branches. Common in still or slow water, especially E. 



