120 POPULAR FLORA. 
Flowers white, rather large: petals Jarger than the fugacious calyx. 
Stamens and narrow petals 8. The one-flowered scape and the 2-parted leaves 
rising separately from the ground. Fruit a many- 
seeded pod opening by a lid, (Jeffersénia) TWINLEAF. 
Stamens 12 to 18: petals rounded, 6 to 9. Flowering stems 2-leaved at the top: 
leaves shield-shaped and several-cleft, large, with a 
nodding flower in the fork, (Podophyllum) May-Arpix. 
6. WATER-LILY FAMILY. Order NYMPHHACES. 
Water-plants with flowers and leaves on long footstalks, rising out of the water or rest- 
ing on its surface; the leaves 
either shield-shaped or deeply 
heart-shaped. Petals and sta- 
‘mens generally very many.— 
To the proper Water-Lily fam- 
ily may here well enough be 
added the Water-shield and 
the Nelymbo, each of a sin- 
gle species. This gives us 
four genera, which are distin- 
guished as follows: — 
Fruit of Nelumbo. “270. Flower, bud, and ‘leaf of White Water-Lily. 271. Flower with the parts cut 
away, all but two petal-like stamens, one ordinary stamen, and the compound 
pistil, 272. Slice across the 1l-celled pistil. 
1, Leaves and flowers from very thick and-long creeping rootstocks. Sepals and the 
many petals and stamens gradually blending into each other, and growing to the 
surface of the many-celled and many-seeded compound pistil. Flower white, sweet- 
scented, (Nymphaea) Warre Water-Liny. 
