cs82 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Edinburgh, and in the iiland of Li/more fplenti- 

 fully. h . Vlf. & VIII. 

 The petals are yellow, thin and fiaccid, like thofc 

 of the poppy. 



*** Flores poly pet alt. 



MYMPH^A. Gen, fl 6s3^ 

 Cor, polypetala. Cal, tetra feu pentaphyllus. Bacca 

 miiltilocularis truncata. 

 kfea I. NYMPHiEA foliis cordatis integerrimis, calyce 

 petalis majore pentaphyllo. 6"^. pL 729. (Blak-r 

 well, t, 497. 498. k 500. Ger. em, Sig,f, 2) 

 Yellow Water-Lilly. Anglic, 

 In lakes and ditches, but not very common. Sib- 



bald^ndT>r,Parfons, n.YUL 

 The leaves are fmooth, plane, tough and pliant, 

 ten or twelve inches in diameter, and float upon 

 the furface of the water : the leaves of the Calyx 

 are tough, and yellow within : the Petals are 

 yellow, much fmaller than the Calyx, in num- 

 ber from 14 to 20, furrow'd and crenated : the 

 Stamina are more numerous, at the firil expan- 

 fion of the flower adhering clofely to the fruit, 

 but afterwards are feflexed : the flower blooms 

 out of the water, but the fruit reverts and ripens 

 its feed under it. This fruit is of a pear-fhap'd, 

 or oval-conic figure, crowned with a fiat radi* 

 cated Difc or Stigma, confifl-ing of as many rays 

 as the fruit has cells, like as in the poppy. 



Linnaus 



