80 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES IL—NUPHAR PUMILA. Sm. 
Pratt LVI.* 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. VII. Nymph. Tab. LXV. Fig. 115. 
N. lutea, var., Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 70. 
N. minima, Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 2292. 
Leaves broadly oval, with a deep sinus; lobes diverging from 
the petiole at least towards their tips. Petals oblong, spathulate. 
Anthers less than twice as long as broad. Stigmatic disk lobed at 
the edge, the lobes extending about one-third of the way to the 
centre ; stigmatic rays extending to the extremity of the lobes of 
the disk. 
In lakes. Very rare. Ellesmere, in Shropshire ; Mugdoch 
Loch, near Glasgow ; Loch of Menteith, near Stirling; and a few 
other small lochs in the East and West Highlands. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 
Similar to the last, especially to the variety 6. Floating leaves 
broadly oval, with a deep sinus, the edges of the lobes parallel at 
the base, and diverging towards the tips. I have not seen British 
specimens with submerged leaves ; Professor Babington describes 
them as reniform; in French specimens from Vosges they are very 
shortly ovoid, or nearly circular, with the lobes diverging at an angle 
of from 40 to 60 degrees. Petioles 2-edged. Flowers very similar 
to those of variety § of the preceding species, 1} to 1} inch in 
diameter, but the petals are narrower, and suddenly contracted 
below, the anthers much shorter, their length not being more than 
once and a half their breadth, and the margin of the stigmatic disk 
is scalloped. The stigmatic rays are only 8 or 10 in number, and 
reach to the edge of the disk. 
I have seen no British specimens of the variety ? with elongate 
anthers (N. spennerianum, Gaud.), though it occurs both in Vosges 
and in Lapland. My specimens from Vosges belong to the ordinary 
form of N. pumila, so that both forms must exist in that district. 
Least Water Lily. 
® The Plate is E. B, 2292, with the dissections corrected. 
