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Nuphar Smiru. Flowers yellow, cup-shaped, single on a 
stalk which rises to the surface of the water, with the odor of the 
orange: sepals 5-12, the outer partly greenish on the outside and 
often ruddy within: petals one or more rows, small, stamen-like, 
nectary-bearing beneath, inserted with the stamens upon the re- 
ceptacle around the ovary, sometimes gradually changing into 
stamens: stamens numerous, in 3-9 rows, at length recurved ; 
anther cells linear, adnate, introrse: the ovary rising at the sum- 
mit into an urceolate circular or stellate disk, upon which tie 
8-21 stigmas in radiating lines or ridges: fruit an ovoid or 
globular berry, its apex often oblique to the body, having as 
many cells as there are stigmas, many seeded, the oval seeds with- 
out aril. The leaves at base deeply lobed, with a sinus nearly 4 
the length of the blade (except in no, 5), the floating coriaceous, 
the submerged thin, crisped and broadly cordate, rising from a 
thick scaly looking rhizome which creeps widely under the mud. 
An inhabitant of pools and muddy streams, flowering all sum- 
mer; of 7 or 8 species in the North Temperate Zone. 
inches long by 5-9 inches broad, the sinus usually open ; the 
petioles and peduncles smooth or slightly pubescent ; rhizome 
covered with the scaly scars of former leaves. 
Var. (?) minor. Specimens without leaves are in Herb. Gray 
which have flowers about one inch in diameter when expanded, 
the disk margins more deeply crenate, ten stigmas, and small fruit 
an inch long by one-half an inch broad. 
They are labelled “Smith’s Pond, Herkimer Co., Litchfield, 
New York.” Further material is very desirable. 
T cies is common in the Atlantic States and occurs as far west as the 
Uinta Mts., Utah, and northward. 
2. N. rubrodiseum. Sepals similar to the foregoing, the largest 
1} inches long by 1} wide: petals more dilated upwards or even 
adout equal to the filament: stig - ; , 
erenate than in the preceding, a beautiful bright red or crimson 
