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Var. minor, Sims. Lesser Water-lily. 



N. odorata, var. rosea. Pursh, 369. 

 N. minor, DC. Hook. Fl. I., 32. 



In a small lake southeast of Marmora Village, Hastings, Co., Ont. ; 

 South Lake, Township of Snowdon, Peterboro' Co., Ont. Rare. Easily 

 known by its very small flowers and leaves. 



30. NUPHAR, Smith. (YELLOW POND-LILY.) 



(95.) N. ad vena, Ait. Common Yellow Water-lily. 



Nymphsea advena, Michx. Fl. I., 311. 

 Nuphar Americana, Provancher, Fl. Can., 28. 



Very abundant in ponds, ditches and rivers from Nova Scotia and 

 New Brunswick, through Quebec and Ontario and westward by the 

 forest country to the Rocky Mountains, also on the Athabasca River 

 north of Lat. 5*7. Caribou, Labrador. (Butler.) West Coast of New- 

 foundland. (J. Bell.) 



(96.) N. polysepalum, Engelm. Western Pond-lily. 



Swamp Creek, on the height of land between the Fraser and 

 McLeod's River, northern British Columbia, 18*75. (Macoun.) Lakes 

 near Ilgatcho Lake, B.C. (Dawson.) 



(97. N. lute urn, Smith. Yellow Pond-lily. 



Found during the first journey of Sir John Franklin, in the 

 wooded country Lat. 54-64. (Richardson.) In the summer of 

 1881, Dr. Robert Bell gathered a few specimens which I refer to this 

 species in Lake Wabatongwashene, north of Lake Superior. Brome 

 Lake, Eastern Townships, Q. (McGill Coll. Herb.) Sitka. (Rothr. 

 Alaska.) 



Var. - - (?) Fletcher's Fl. Ott. 



This form, found in the Ottawa River, near Ottawa city, Mr. Fletcher, 

 after a careful examination of his specimens, and particularly the fruit, 

 came to the conclusion was " merely a hybrid between N. advena and 

 N. Kalmiana." To decide the question he sent both living and dried 

 specimens to Professor R. Casparry, Director of the Botanic Gardens, 

 Konigsberg, the highest authority on Nuphar, whose answer was as 

 follows : "I have not the slightest doubt but that your Nupliar is N~. 

 advena + Kalmiana. It is intermediate between the two, and what is 

 decisive is this its pollen is very bad ; no less than 95 per cent, of the 

 grains in the specimens sent had no fovilla. N. advena and Kalmiana 



