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peduncles, bearing very large (l°-2° wide) and more or less dish-shaped or 

 cup-shaped centrally-peltate entire leaves, and great flowers (5'- 10' broad), 

 in summer. Seeds, also the tubers, eatable. 



N. Itlteum, Yellow N. or Water Chinquepin. Common W. & S. : 

 introduced, by Indians perhaps, at Sodus Bay; N. Y., Lyme, Conn., and below 

 Philadelphia. Flower pale dull yellow : anther hook-tipped. 



N. specidsum, Showy N., Lotus or Sacked Bean of India, with 

 pinkish flowers and blunter anthers ; cult, in choice conservatories. 



3. NYMPH^A, WATER-LILY, POND-LILY. (Dedicated to tho 

 Water-Nymphs.) Long prostrate rootstocks, often as thick as one's arm, 

 send up floating leaves (rounded and with a naiTOW cleft nearly or quite to 

 the petiole) and large handsome flowers, produced all summer : these close in 

 the afternoon ; the fruit ripens under water. 



U. odor&ta, Sweet-scented White W. Common in still or slow 

 water, especially E. Flower richly sweet-scented, white, or sometimes pinkish, 

 rarely pink-red, variable in size, as are the leaves ; seeds oblong. 



N. tuberdsa, Tcber-beaking W. Common through the Great Lakes, 

 and W. & S. Flower nearly scentless (its faint odor like that of apples), 

 pure white, usually larger (4' -9' in diameter), as are also the leaves (8' - 15' 

 wide) ; petals broader and blunter; seeds almost globular; rootstock bearing 

 copious tubers like " artichokes," attached by a narrow neck and spontaneously 

 separating. 



IT. csertllea, Blue W., of Egy{)t, &c., cult, in aquaria ; a tender species, 

 with crenate-toothed leaves, and blue or bluish sweet-scented flowers, the petals 

 fewer and acute. 



4. IftJPHAR, YELLOW POND-LILY, or SPATTER-DOCK. (Old 

 Greek name. ) Rootstock, &c. as in Nympha;a : leaves often rising out of 

 water : flowers by no means showy, yellow, sometimes purplish-tinged, pro- 

 duced all summer : fruit ripening above water. 



N. &dveiia is the common species, everywhere; has 6 unequal sepals or 

 sometimes more ; petals, or what answer to them, truncate, shorter than the 

 stamens and resembling them ; th'e thickish leaves rounded or ovate-oblong. 



N. Itlteum, rare N. ; has smaller flowers, with 5 sepals, petals dilated 

 upwards and more conspicuous, and a globular fruit with a narrow neck : 

 the var. ptimilum, a small variety, has flowers only 1 ', and leaves 1 ' - 5' in 

 diameter ; rather common N. 



N. sagittif61ia, Arrow-leaved N., from North Carolina S. ; has sagit- 

 tate leaves (1° by 2'j, and 6 sepals. This and the last produce their earlier 

 leaves under water and very thin. 



7. SARRACENIACE.aE, PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY. 



Consists of one South American plant, of the curious Darling- 

 TONIA Californica in the mountains of California, and of the 

 following : — 



1. SABKACIENIA. (Named for Dr. Sajrasin of Quebec.) Stdesaddle- 

 FlOwer, a most unmeaning popular name. Leaves all radical from a per- 

 ennial root, and in the form of hollow tubes or pitchers, winged down the 

 inner side, open at the ton, where there is a sort of arching blade or hood. 

 The whole foliage yellowish green or purplish. Scape tall, naked, bearing a 

 single large nodding flower, in early summer. Sepals 5, with 3 bractlets at 

 the base, colored, persistent. Petals 5, fiddle-shaped, incurved over the pel- 

 tate and umbrella-shaped .^-angled petal-like great top to the style. Stamens 

 very numerous. Ovary 5-celled. JPod many-seeded, rough-warty. 



S. purpiirea. Purple S. or Pitcher-Plant of the North, where it is 

 common in bogs. Leaves pitcher-shaped, open, with an erect roulid-heart- 

 shaped hood and a broad side-wing, purple-veiny ; flower deep purple. 



