Pceonia.] POLYANDRIA — PENTAGYNTA. 2l5 



8. NymphAa. Z^M«. White Water-Lily. 



1. N. alba, Li. (great White Water-Lily); leaves cordate en- 

 tire, stigma of 16 ascending' rays. E. Bot. t. 160. Hook, in 

 Fl. Lond. N. S. t. 140. 



Lakes and still waters, frequent. Fl. July. If. — In the quiet reces- 

 ses of the Highland lakes, especially,— 



" The watei'-lily to the light, 

 Her chalice rears of silver bright." 



9. NuPHAR. Sm. Yellow "Water-Lily. 



1. N. Mtea, Sm. {common Yellow Water- Lilij); leaves cordate 

 their lobes approximate, cal. of 5 leaves, stigma expanded entire 

 with from 14 — 20 rays. Hook, in Fl. Lond. N. S. t, 141. 

 — Nymplma. L E. Bot. i!. 139. 



Lakes and ditches, frequent. Fl. July. T/. — Flowers large, smelling 

 somewhat like brand}" ; which circumstance, in conjunction as I presume 

 with its flagon-shaped seed-vessels, has led to the name Brandif-hottlCt 

 by which this plant is known in many parts of England. 



2. N. pumila, DC. (least Yelloiv Water-Lily); leaves cordate 

 the lobes approximate, stigma (green) with 8 or 9 teeth and as 

 many (yellow) rays, fruit furrowed upwards. Hook in Fl. Lond. 

 N. S. t. 170. — jV. ICalmiana, Hook. Scot. \. p. 169. (an Aiton ?) 

 — N. minima, E. Bot. t. '2292. 



In several of the small Highland lakes. Mugdoch, near Glasgow. 

 Chartners Lough, Northumberland. Fl. Ju]y, Aug. "U. — I am even 

 now far from certain that this ought not to be united with the American 

 JV. Kalmiana. All the differences I can find between the two, I have 

 fully detailed in Fl. Lond. 



POLYANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. 



10. Helleborus. Linn. Hellebore. 



1. Y{.*viridis, L. (green Hellebore^; stem few-flowered leafy, 

 leaves digitate, cal. spreading. E. Bot. t. 2U0. 



Woods, thickets and hedges, especially in a chalky soil. Dunglass 

 Glen and Laswade, Scotland. Fl. April, May. If. — I ft. high. Leaves 

 annual, large, on a broad stalk ; upper ones sessile ; segments linear- 

 lanceolate, serrated at the extremity. Cal. large, greenish-yellow. This 

 and the following have been often employed medicinall}% instead of the 

 true, ancient or Greek Hellebore, (H. officinalis, Sibth. and Smith). 



2. l\.*fatidus, L. (stinking Hellebore); stem many-flowered 

 leafy, leaves pedate, calyx converging. E. Bot. t. 613. 



Pastures and thickets, especially in chalky counties, in England. Blan- 

 tyre and Barncluish ; and by the Donne, Ayr, on the west, and near 

 Anstruther on the east of Scotland. Fl. Apr. If — A bushy plant, 2 

 feet high. Leaves evergreen, uppermost ones gradually becoming 

 bracteas. Floirers globose ; calyx often tipped with a purple tinge. 

 Fetid and powerfully cathartic. 



11. PiEoNiA. Linn. Peeony. 

 1. P.* corallinOf Retz, (entire-leaved FcBony); herbaceous, 



