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tulip, about 3 to 4 inches in diameter, springing from a scape about 
3 feet in length, which is generally muricate or rough with tubercles 
towards the upper part, a condition which likewise exists in the upper 
parts of the petioles. Catycine leaves small, reddish green. PETALS 
about 16, of a lemon yellow colour, in two or more rows, the interior 
ones narrower. STaMENS numerous, the anthers drawn out beyond 
the cells into a linear appendage. Torus obconical, truncate above, 
with several depressions containing the carpels, which become cary- 
opsides, each containing one seed. 
PopuiarR AND GeocrapuicaL Notice. This most beautiful species 
of water-lily is native of the lakes, rivers, and stagnant waters of North 
America, extending from New Jersey, to East Florida: and inwards 
as far as Louisiana. It is believed to have been introduced into the 
ponds and lakes in Brobston Meadows, near Philadelphia, its natural 
limits not being supposed to reach so far North; though Michaux ap- 
pears to have met with it in the district of Illinois. Walter mentions hav- 
ing met with a variety with white flowers. Some writers regard this as 
a variety only of the Nelumbium speciosum, the Sacred or Egyptian 
Bean of the ancients. In this opinion Barton concurs both in his Pro- 
dromus, and also in his Compendium Flore Philadelphice. What-— 
ever may be the accuracy or incorrectness of this opinion, all will 
agree with him when he states “There is not surely in North America 
any plant comparable to this for grandeur, simplicity, and beauty. 
Truly it may be styled the Queen of American Flowers.” It is the 
largest flower produced in N. America, that of Magnolia macrophylla 
excepted. It seems conscious of the place assigned it, and its beauti- 
ful flower, being raised on a flexible stem three or four feet above the 
water, waves to and fro in the most majestic manner. It generally 
keeps near the edges of the rivers, but Bartram has seen it extend 
across Cape-Fear river, in North Carolina, though two miles broad 
and twelve feet water, its leaves covering many acres and forming a 
delusive wavy plain. 
“ Near the moist brink 
Of music-loving streams they ever keep, 
Oft, laughing, drink 
Ofthe mad torrent’s spray, perched near the thundering steep; 
And every where 
Be plashy marge, and shallow bed 
still waters, they innumerous spread, 
Rocked gently there.” 
H. Pickerine. 
