WATER=LILY FAMILY. Nymphasceas. 



A common little low plant in sandy 

 Biida rubra D ^^'^^ste places sometimes near the coast 

 Tissa rubra L. but not on the shore. Leaves linear and 

 Pink flat, in clusters about the frail stem. Tiny 



June-August flowers, crimson-pink, sepals glandular- 

 hairy. The plants grow in dense company. 2-6 inches 

 high. Roadsides and waste places, Me. to Va., west to 

 western N. Y. 



WATER-LILY FAMILY. Nympliceacew.. 



Aquatic perennial herbs, with floating leaves, and soli- 

 tary flowers with 3-5 sepals, numerous petals, and dis- 

 tinct stigmas or these united in a radiate disc. Fertilized 

 by bees, beetles, and aquatic insects. 



The common and beautiful white pond- 

 Water=Lily ,., . , - ^.,, . K 



Nymphoia ^^^^' found m still waters everywhere. 



odorata Leaves dark green, pinkish beneath, ovate- 



White round, cleft at the base up to the long 



June- stem. The white flowers, often 5 inches 



in diameter when fully developed, open in 

 the morning and close at noon or later ; they are fre- 

 quently pink- tinged ; the golden stamens and anthers 

 are concentric, and are luminous in quality of color. 

 They mature after the stigma does, and cross-fertiliza- 

 tion occurs by the agency of bees and beetles in general. 

 The flower yields pollen only. The var, rosea, in south- 

 eastern Mass,, and Nantucket, is deeply pink-tinged. 

 The var. minor is small, with flowers less than three 

 inches broad, 



A common odorless yellow pond-lily 



e ow - £q^^j^(J often in the same water with the 



Lily or 



Spatter=dock preceding species. With ovate leaves or 

 Nuphar advena broader, and small, green and yellow cup- 

 Golden yellow shaped flowers, with 6 green sepals, some- 



^ ^^" . times purple-tinged, yellowish inside ; the 



September i i o ' .' 



petals yield nectar ; they are small, nar- 

 row, thick, and yellow — stamenlike. The stigma is a pal0 

 ruddy or deep golden yellow-rayed disc, beneath which 

 the undeveloped anthers are crowded. On the first 

 opening of the flower there is a triangular orifice over 



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