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at intervals among them its snow-white, large, and cup-shaped 

 flowers, without admiring its surpassing beauty and majesty. 



" Come seek the Lily's still calm haunts, and see 

 The waters sporting round their pearly cups, 

 If ye e're ga/ed on aught more beautiful, 

 Oh! tell me what it was, for ne'er have I." 



And again the same fair authoress, Miss Twamley, writes : 

 " Oh ! come to the river's brink, come to us there, 

 For the White Water Lily is wondrous fair, 

 With her large broad leaves on the stream afloat, 

 Each one a capacious fairy boat 

 The ' Swan among Flowers,' how statelily ride 

 Her snow white cups on the rippling tide/' 



YELLOW WATER LILY. Nymphcea lutea. 



Plate 7, fig. 15. 

 Calyx of five leaves. Petals numerous and yellow. 



The Yellow Water Lily, though neither so large nor so 

 beautiful as the last, is yet a fine flower and contrasts well with 

 it, when they are growing together. The calyx is very much 

 larger than the petals and of a yellow color. Petals small, in 

 one row. Stamens very numerous, yellow, strap-shaped, at 

 first closing upon the stigma, but when their pollen is shed, 

 they are bent back. Stigma forming the top of the fruit, rayed, 

 entire on the edge. Fruit, or seed-vessel, shaped like a bottle, 

 and as the flowers smell like brandy, they are often called 

 " Brandy Bottles." Flowering at the same time, and growing 

 in the same places as the white species. This is now considered 

 a different genus, called NUPHAR. 



MEADOW RUE. THALICTRUM. 



COMMON MEADOW RUE. Thalictrum flavum. 

 Plate 7, fig. 16. 



Stem erect, branched, leafy, furrowed, growing two or three 

 feet high, in wet meadows and on river banks ; flowering in July. 

 Flowers very many, in large branched heads, appearing as if 

 formed of a bunch of yellow threads ; the stamens and styles 

 being very numerous, not inclosed in a corolla, and with a very 

 small calyx. Leaves doubly pinnate, each leaflet cut into three 

 large teeth at the top. 



O. S. Alpine Mountain Rue and Larger Mountain Rue. 



