WATER LILY FAMILY. Nymphaeaceae. 



The only kind, an attractive perennial, 

 Sweet-after- 

 Death popular on account of its sweet-smelling 



Achlys triphylla foliage, which, however, is not fragrant 

 White until the leaves are dried. It has a very 



Summer slender rootstock and only one large leaf, 



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with a very long, slender leaf-stalk and 



three, oddly-shaped leaflets, from two to six inches across, 

 bright-green, smooth and thin in texture, but not glossy. 

 The single, very slender flower-stalk, from one to two feet 

 tall, bears a crowded spike of many, tiny, scentless, white 

 flowers, without either calyx or corolla, but consisting of 

 a cluster of stamens, with long, threadlike filaments, the 

 outer ones broader, and a pistil with a broad stigma and 

 no style. The effect of the cluster is feathery and pretty 

 and the broad leaf is very conspicuous, on account of its 

 size and shape. The crescent-shaped fruit contains one 

 seed, is at first fleshy, but becomes dry and leathery. This 

 grows in the woods in the Coast Ranges, from near sea- 

 level up to seven thousand feet. It is also called Vanilla 

 Leaf and Deer-foot. 



WATER LILY FAMILY. Nymphaeaceae. 



A small family, widely distributed in fresh-water lakes 

 and streams; aquatic, perennial herbs, with thick, horizon- 

 tal rootstocks, or with tubers, large, floating, or erect 

 leaves, and large, solitary flowers, with long flower-stalks; 

 sepals three to twelve; petals three to many; stamens six 

 to numerous; ovary superior, stigmas distinct or united 

 into a disk. We have no white Water Lilies in the West. 



Like the eastern Spatter-dock, this is a 

 coarse ' but rather handsome and decora- 

 Nymphoiopoly- tive P lant - The leathery leaves ^ are 

 sepala (Nuphar) shaped like a rounded heart and sometimes 

 Yellow a foot long. The cup-shaped calyx, two 



Summer ^ Q Qur i nc h es across j s the conspicuous 



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Col Wyo part or the flower, consisting or seven to 



twelve, thickish sepals, yellow and petal- 

 like, the outer greenish. There are twelve to eighteen 



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