

WATER LILY FAMILY. Nymphaeaceae. 
Boats ation The only kind, an attractive perennial, 
Death popular on account of its sweet-smelling 
Achlys triphylla foliage, which, however, is not fragrant 
White until the leaves are dried. It has a very 
Summer 
slender rootstock and only one large leaf, 
with a very long, slender leaf-stalk and 
three, oddly-shaped leaflets, from two to six inches across, 
bright-green, smooth and thin in texture, but not glossy. 
The single, very slender flower-stalk, from one to two feet 
tall, bears a crowded spike of many, tiny, scentless, white 
flowers, without either calyx or corolla, but consisting of 
a cluster of stamens, with long, threadlike filaments, the 
outer ones broader, and a pistil with a broad stigma and 
no style. The effect of the cluster is feathery and pretty 
and the broad leaf is very conspicuous, on account of its 
size and shape. The crescent-shaped fruit contains one 
seed, is at first fleshy, but becomes dry and leathery. This 
grows in the woods in the Coast Ranges, from near sea- 
level up to seven thousand feet. It is also called Vanilla 
Leaf and Deer-foot. 
Wash., Oreg., Cal. 
WATER LILY FAMILY. Nymphaeaceae. 
A small family, widely distributed in fresh-water lakes 
and streams; aquatic, perennial herbs, with thick, horizon- 
tal rootstocks, or with tubers, large, floating, or erect 
leaves, and large, solitary flowers, with long flower-stalks; 
sepals three to twelve; petals three to many; stamens six 
to numerous; ovary superior, stigmas distinct or united 
intoadisk. We have no white Water Lilies in the West. 
__ Like the eastern Spatter-dock, this-is a 
Indian Pond Lily, Qoarse, but rather handsome and decora- 
Spatter-dock : 1 
Meniphebe teabesi0 tT plant. The leathery leaves _are 
sépala (Nuphar) Shaped likea rounded heart and sometimes 
Yellow a foot long. The cup-shaped calyx, two 
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Col., Wyc. part of t € lower, consisting of seven to 
twelve, thickish sepals, yellow and petal- 
like, the outer greenish. There are twelve to eighteen 
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