Nuphar. NVMI'ILKACK.E. 77 



basal lohes not pointed : petals Lri^ht lifjl.t yellow, lan.-eol.ite. 1 \ to 2 inclieH lon^ - Ix-itner 

 inAu(liibou,Einls Ani.t.411.witl.son.e wron^folia-o; ("liapni. F). e<l. 2. 004 • Hook f Hot 

 Mag. t. 6917.1 -Creeks .„„, rivers of E. Klori.la, lir.^t .-oil. l,v A,.//„*r, re'.lmeover<..| bv 

 Palmer, Mrs. Treat, Dr. Garber. Perhaps also C'e.lar Havou. Harris (o./lVxtw in bnu-kwii 

 water. Dr. Juor, with "i)alc straw-c.jor " l.loss.,ni, Imt specimen insiinieient.-! (I'-rhapn 

 also N. tnssilagtfolia, Lehni. Ind. Seni. Hurt. Ilanil,. IH.VJ, 10, & Ann. S.i. Nat. ser. 4, i. .320 

 coll. iu Mexico by Andrieti.r, &c.) " ' 



5. NtJPHAR, Smith. Si'ATTKu-DOCK, Yki.i.ow I'oND-r.ri.v. (Said to Im- 



of Arabic origin and ineiitioiied by Dioscoridos under '' oip/u/a.) PrrtMinials 



of northern heniispiicre and extra-tropical, with cylinch-ical crcepiii«,' rooLstock.s of 

 the White Watcr-Lilics, subterrestrial and aquatic: calyx more showy th.-m 



corolla, at least the upper face of the sepals being Ijright yellow ; fl. summer. 



Prodr. Fl. Groec. i. SOI ; DC. Syst. ii. 59. Ni/iiip/^o'a, lioerh. Hist. PI. Lu;,'.!.- 

 Bat. 363; Salisb. Ann. Bot. ii. 71. Nymphusanthus, Rich. Analyse du Kniit, 

 68, & Ann. Mus. Par. xvii. 230, t. o. Ropahm, Raf. New Fl. Am. ii. 17. [Hv 

 B. L. Robinson.] 



* Leaves oval; sinus fully one fourth to nearly half the lengtli of the blade. 

 H- Anther-cells usually nearly or quite as long as tiic filaments or exceeding tlieni : stig- 

 niatic disk 4 or .5 lines to nearly an inch in diameter, undulate margined, 12-22-raveil. 

 N. polysepalum, Engelm. Very robust: petioles stout; thin submersed leaves none ..r 

 at least not seen; floating leaves large, 8 to 12 inches long, 6 to 9 inclies broad, with narrow 

 or closed sinus and very broad rounded basal lobes: the .subglobose cni>-shapcd calvx 

 3 inches in diameter, when fully expanded even 4 or 3 inclies broad ; sepals 9 to 12, velli.w 

 or with a reddish tinge in age: petals 12 to 18, obovate, cuneate, trnncate, lialf inch' long, 

 two thirds as broad: stamens very numerous, red, recurved in age; polU-ii vellnw : fruit 

 subglohose, 1^ inches in diameter, with short stout definitely constricted neck ami convex 

 umbonate 15-24-rayed stigmatic disk. — Trans. Acad. St. Louis, ii. 282, & B<.t. \V..iks. 

 472; Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exp. 220; Porter & Coulter, Fl. Col. 5. X.a,lrena, Ik-nth. Pi! 

 Ilartw. 296; Newberry, Pacif. R. Rep. vi. 67, uot Ait. f. Niimi>htia poli/se/in/a, (Jreene, 

 Bull. Torr. Club, xv. 84. ? N. udccna, Greene, Fl. Francis. 288. — Colorado to Centnil Cali- 

 fornia and northwestward to Alaska, especially iu alpine ponds of mountain valleys. Tlie 

 farinaceous seeds are an important source of food to certain Indian tribes. Here appears to 

 belong the N. \\. American N. lutenm of autliors (Bong. Yog. Sitch. 124; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ress. i. 84; Rothr. Fl. Alask. 442; &c.), not Smith. Var. rfcTr.M, Engtlni. 1. c, is a form 

 with more highly colored flowers, having sepals inargined with reddish lirown ;iiid petals 

 deep red with yellow tips and bases. — Colorado, Ann/, and probably elsewliere with the 

 duller more yellow-flowered form. A form with smaller flowers (2 to 3 indies in diameter), 

 in hal)it approaching the following, but with the characteristic dark red aiitliers of the 

 western species, has l)ccn collected in Lake County, Calif., Blnnkinshlj). 

 N. advena, Ait. f. Stout but smaller in all parts than the preceding: rhizome hori/ontal, 

 tliick: petioles usually \ to ^ inch in diameter: thin suhnK-r.-^ed leaves jin-.^ent in .«ee(iliiigs, 

 . but in tlie mature jilant rare or none; floating leaves broadly oval, often pube.-scent below; 

 sinus u.sually open; basal lobes very obtuse, sometimes rounded but usually more or lc.««s 

 triangular in outline: sul)globo.se flowers If inches in diameter, when fully expande.i 2 to ,1 

 inches i)road : outer .sepals greenish; the inner commonly dull yellow: i)etals oblanceolato- 

 ol)long, truncate, gradually narrowed toward the b:ise : stamens in .'> or fi .series, n-ciirved 

 with age, yellow: disk j)ale red, yellow, or green, sulx-ntire or undulate-margined; stig- 



1 Add syn. Castalia Jlnva, Greene, I. c. ^5. 



2 Specimens sub.sequently collected by Nenlley at Rio Grande City. Texa.s, nml by PrmgU near 

 Brownsville, no. 1956, as well as specimens of Bourrjeau and of Pringle fmiii Me.xico, nprwin^; wpII 

 with the Florida plant, may be referred to this species, jus by rouller, Contrib. U.S. Nat. H.-rh. i. SO. 

 Also Castalia Mcricann, C'oulter, I. c. ii. 12, aiii>aieiitly not Nymphaa }feriotna of Zuooarini, wliitli 

 should have whin- tlnu.ix. 



