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NELUnBIUn, Adans. Sacred Bean. 



N. luteum, Willd. American Nelumbo or Lotus. 

 Water Chinkapin or Wankapin. 

 In still, deep, water at several places about 

 Sandusky Bay, in the East and West Harbors, 

 at Port Clinton where a large amount of it 

 grows in the Portage River, and west to Monroe, 

 Michigan, but believed to grow nowhere along 

 the American shore of Lake Erie east of the 

 mouth of the Old Woman Creek. A hundred 

 acres of it at the head of Sandusky Bay and 

 along the river, more, probably, than the whole 

 quantity in the United States farther east. The 

 lotus has the largest flowers and largest leaves 

 of any plant in the Sandusky flora. Petioles 

 sometimes 9 feet long ; " blades 26 inches broad." 



NUPHAR, Smith. Spatter-Dock. 

 N. advena, Ait. Yellow Pond-Lily. 



Sandusky Bay, Middle Bass, Blair Creek; 

 freqnent. 



NYMPHAEA, Tourn. Water-Lily. 



N. tubeeosa, Paine. 



Common in still waters connected with the Bay 

 and Lake. 



CERATOPHYLLACE^E. 



CERATOPHYLLUH, L. Hornwort. 

 C. DEMERSUM, L. 



Sandusky Bay, East Harbor, Port Clinton, Put- 

 in-Bay; common. 



