WATER=LILY FAMILY. Nymphsecess. 



A common little low plant in sandy 

 Spergularia waste places sometimes near the coast 

 rubra but not on the shore. Leaves linear and 



flat, in clusters about the frail stem. Tiny 

 June-August fl owerS) crimson-pink, sepals glandular- 

 hairy. The plants grow in dense company. 2-6 inches 

 high. Roadsides and waste places, Me. to Va., west to 

 western N. Y. 



WATER-LILY FAMILY. Nymphceacece.. 



Aquatic perennial herbs, with floating leaves, and soli- 

 tary flowers with 3-5 sepals, numerous petals, and dis- 

 tinct stigmas or these united in a radiate disc. Fertilized 

 by bees, beetles, and aquatic insects. 



The common and beautiful white pond- 

 Water-Lily ,., - 



Castalia ^ found in still waters everywhere. 



odorata Leaves dark green, pinkish beneath, ovate- 



White round, cleft at the base up to the long 



June- stem. The white flowers, often 5 inches 



in diameter when fully developed, open in 

 the morning and close at noon or later ; they are fre- 

 quently pink-tinged ; the golden stamens and anthers 

 are concentric, and are luminous in quality of color. 

 They mature after the stigma does, and cross-fertiliza- 

 tion occurs by the agency of bees and beetles in general. 

 The flower yields pollen only. The var. rosea, in south- 

 eastern Mass., and Nantucket, is deeply pink-tinged. 

 The var. minor is small, with flowers less than three 

 inches broad. 



A common odorless yellow pond-lily 

 Yellow Pond- f oun d often in the same water with the 

 Spatter-dock P rece ding species. With ovate leaves or 

 Nymphaa broader, and small, green and yellow cup- 



advena shaped flowers, with 6 green sepals, some- 



Golden yellow times purple-tinged, yellowish inside ; the 

 petals yield nectar ; they are small, nar- 

 row, thick, and yellow stamenlike. The 

 stigma is a pale ruddy or deep golden yellow-rayed disc, 

 beneath which the undeveloped anthers are crowded. On 

 the first opening of the flower there is a triangular orifice 

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