Nymphaa. NVMl'lI.KACK.K. 75 



N. lutea, Peks. (Watek Chinquapin, Wankai-in.) IVtalM piile <.r diiif^y yeU<.w, ol.iu«e : 

 aiither-tip liueardavate : peduiirles minutely (^r ohsfurdy iiiurii-iilatc ami |>elitiles littlo 

 mure so: leaves usually raised hif,'li out of water, a foot or two iu (liaiiietcr, on petiole a 

 to G feet loug. — Syn. ii. 92; ('asp. 1. c. 1.34; Haill. Hisf. I'l. iii. 79, f. 79-Kl.l X,lumbiun, 

 luleiim, Willd. Spec. ii. 1-259; Miclix. FI. i. 317; DC. Syst. ii. 46; Torr. &. Cr.iv, V\. i 50; 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3753; Gray, (Jen. 111. i. 98, t. 40, 41. \. Jamniansi , DC. .Syst. ii. 47. 

 N. speciosum, Ait. f. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 332, iu part. N. />rnliii>(:t<iliim, Willd. 1. c ; DC. 1. c. 47. 

 N. coilo/>/ti///uin, Kaf. Fl. J.,ud. 22; !)(_'. 1. c. Ni/mft/nKi Xilnmio, var., L. Sj>ei-. i. 511. 

 N. Xihtmho & X. )i£utajHt(ihi, Walt. Car. 155, and even also A', renl/unnis, as to the fruit, 

 tliorcfore Nchunhinin nnifurme, Willd. and Cyuinns riiii/urmis, I'ursh. Ci/nmus fhivimmu*, 

 Salisb. 1. c. ; Piirsh, Fl. ii. 398, with C pentapetalus. C\i/amus liileus, IJartou, Fl. Pliilad. 

 ii. 26, & Fl. N. Am. ii. 77, t. 63. — In shallow or rather deep water, S. Connectii-ut-' (prol>- 

 bably of Indian iutruduction), New Jersey, Big Sodus Bay, L. Ontario, and Michigan t<i 

 Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas; 11. summer. (W. Ind., E. S. Am.)^ 



4. NYMPHS A, Tourn. W.vtkr-Lilv. (The classical name, dcdicjited 

 to the water nyiiiplis.) — Thick prostrate and creeiniig or tuberous rootstocks, 

 sending up long petioles and scapes; the rounded leaves with deep sinus at ba.se. 

 Flowers showy, mostly fragrant, and opening at or before dawn day after dav, 

 closing toward evening, commonly produced all summer; the fruit maturing 

 under water. —Inst. 2G0, t. 137, 138; L. Gen. no. 421; Smith, Pro<lr. Fl. 

 Graec. i. 3C0, &g. Castalia, Salisb. Farad. Lond. 14, & Ann. Bot. ii. 71.'* 



§ 1. Carpels uncombined, except dorsally with the common parietes of tiiu 

 compound pistil, and ventrally with the axis. — § Lytopleura, Casp. 



N. ampla, DC. Eootstocks short and tuheriferous : leaves of orbicular or round oval out- 

 line, acutely dentate, thickish, very prominently costate and reticulate-veiny underneath: 

 petals white, lanceolate-oblong, 2 or 3 inches long : connective of anthers prolonged into a 

 linear tip: fruit much depressed; .seeds very .small, sn])globose (half line long). — Syst ii. 

 54 (mainly) ; Hook. Bot, Mag. t. 4469, Gray, PI. Wriglit. i. 7 ; Ca.sp. 1. c. 156, t. 28-30.' — 

 Southern borders of Texas, Wright. (Adj. Mex. and \v. Iinl. to Brasil.) 



§ 2. Carpels combined throughout into a many-celled compound ovary. — § Syni- 

 phytopleiira, Casp. 



* Flowers tinged with blue or violet : connective of tlie outer ajithers jiroduced into an 

 oblong appendage. 

 N. elegans, IIook. Petioles and scapes slender, from a short rootstock : leaves entire or 

 barely ropand (3 to 6 inches long) of broadly oval or roundish outline with verv narrow 

 sagittiform sinus and basal terminations slightly or not at all jxanted : petals ovate-lanceo- 

 lnte, hardly incli and a half long : stamens a])parcntly in jihalanges ( Hook.) : stigmatic rav.s 

 ah.iut 15, the radiate appendages very sliort.— Bot. Mag. t. 4604, not Ilemsl. Biol. Cent. 

 ^Vm. Bot. for the plant of Bourgeau must be N. Mexlrana, Zucc. ^V. Mf.ririitui f Cm. 

 PI. AVright. i. 7, not Zucc.'' — W. Texas, in a pond near tiie head of the Leona, Wriijlii."' 

 (Monterey, Mex., Bedamlier?) 



1 Also Gray, Bull. Torr. Club, xiv. 228. 



2 Since reported from Osterville, Mass., W. G. Farlow, Bull. Torr. CIiil>, xii. 40. 



8 The oriental N. nuci'fkka, Gaertn., witli white or i)ink (lowers, iu^s not infreiiuently Won i<l!>nt«Hl 

 for ornament, and is establislu'd in certain localities in New Jersey. See Sturtevant, Giir<l. & Fur. ii. 

 172, 173. 



4 For full generic synonymy according to strict priority see Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, xiv. STiT, xv. 

 84, and Britten, Jour. Bot. xxvi. 6. Tlie names here retained, however, are those establislu'd by lonjj 

 usage, confirmed by recent publications by the Kew botanists and by Prof. C.ispary in Engl. & I'r.intl. 

 Nat. Pflanzenf. iii.Ab. 2, 1-10. 



5 Add syn. Castalia ampli, Salisb. Ann. Bot. ii. 73. 

 *» Add syn. Castalia eleynns, Greene, 1. c. 85. 



1 Rediscovered near Waco, Texas, liy .W.i.-!>s Tn'mhfv ^: Wvlf/ht. ISSS; see Sterns, Bidl. Torr. 

 Club, XV. 13; also collected in same year near Biowusvillc by C. (J. Prinylc. 



