PL ex. thai 83. NYMPH^ACEiE. 453. Nuphar. 707 



2. Nvphar minimum. Smallest water-can. 



Calyx 5-sepaled ; stigmata margined, toothed ; petiole 

 2-edged ; leaves heartshape, lobes rather distant. 



Nymphaea lutea minima, fVilld. S. P. 

 Nuphar minima, Salisbury, jinn. Hot. 2, 69. 



Alpine lakes; perennial; July. 



Plant small ; leaves rather silky beneath ; flowers golden 

 yellow ; stigmata edged with green. 



II. 4.54-. NYMPH^A. Theophrastus. Water-lilly. 



Calyx 4 or 5-sepaled, coloured ; petals many, indefinite, 

 on the ovary; stamens many ; filaments outer row dilated, 

 petal-like ; stigmata many, radiated, cut, nectariferous ; 

 berry globular, 8-celled, many-seeded; bark hard. 



Nymphcea alia. White water-Ully. 



Leaves heartshape, smooth beneath, edge not cut ; petals 



elliptical, oblong; stigmata 10, bent back; trunk horizontal. 



Nymphaea alba, Rail Syn. 363, 3; Ger. em. 819, 1 ; Lin. S. P. 729. 



Njmpliaea alba major vulgaris. Park. 1251. 



White water can. Candock. When double. Water rose. 



Rivers and stagnant waters; perennial ; June and July. 



LeaJ'-lobes imbricate, roundish; flowers M'hite, floating 

 on the water; sepales 4, coloured above; inner petals smallest j 

 outer stamens yellow, dilated ; fruit blunt. — Root bulbous, 

 dyes dark brown ; is sometimes made into bread. 



Fam. XIX. 84. BERBERIDE^. Jussieu. 



Calyx deciduous, sepales in 2 series, 2 or 3 in each series ; 

 petals 4 or 6, opposite to the sepales ; stamens as many as 

 the petals opposite to them ; anthers adnate, 2-celled, open- 

 ing from the base to the tip by a valve; ovary 1, free, 

 style 0; peoicarpium 1 -celled; seeds affixed to the base of 

 the cells ; perisperm fleshy ; corculum straight, axile ; radicle 

 below. — Plant shrubby or herbaceous ; leaves alternate, 

 often compound ; flowers racemose, bracteated. 



Petals and stam. 6; berry 1-celled .... Berberis. 455. 



Petals and stam. 4 ; pericarp l-celled; 

 2-valved Epimedium. 456. 



I. 455. BERBERIS. Brunsfel. Barberry. 



Outer sepales 3, inner 6 ; petals 6, glands 2, at the base 

 of the petals; stamens irritable; stigma broad, sessile, um- 

 bilicated, persisting; berry ovate, cylindrical, 1-celled, 2 or 

 3-seeded. — Shrub thorny; leaves simple. 



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