WATER LILY FAMILY 
NYMPH/EACEZE 
The Water Lily family may certainly claim to 
be the most beautiful group of aquatic wild flow- 
ers. All the members of this family are perennial 
herbs which are especially characterized by long, 
horizontal root-stocks living on or in water. The 
flowers have three to five sepals and five to many 
petals and stamens. The familiar Water Lilies 
of our lakes and ponds are typical illustrations 
of this interesting group. 
Water Lites. It is not strange that the 
glorious beauty of the Water Lily has long proved 
a source of joy and inspiration to imaginative 
peoples. In various species this flower is widely 
distributed over the world, the Lotus of Egypt 
and the Orient being one sort while the Victoria 
Regia of the tropics is another. In our own 
country the white and pink varieties, though 
smaller than these exotic forms, are almost equally 
beautiful and furnish a delightful decoration to 
many a pond and pool. Opening during the 
middle of the day they reflect from their spotless 
and glowing petals the glory of the sunshine. 
If the leaves of one of the white Water Lilies 
are purple on the under side it is the Sweet- 
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