WATER-LILY FAMILY. Nympheeceae. 



. _ A common little low plant in sandy 



band bpurry 



Buda rubra D. was te places sometimes near the coast 

 Tissa rubra L. but not on the shore. Leaves linear and 

 Pink flat, in clusters about the frail stem. Tiny 



June-August fl owers> crimson-pink, sepals glandular- 

 hairy. The plants grow in dense company. 2-6 inches 

 high. Roadsides and waste places, Me. to Va. , west to 

 western N. Y. 



WATER-LILY FAMILY. Nymphceacecp.. 



Aquatic perennial herbs, with floating leaves, and soli- 

 tary flowers with 3-5 sepals, numerous petals, and dis- 

 tinct stigmas or these united in a radiate disc. Fertilized 

 by bees, beetles, and aquatic insects. 



The common and beautiful white pond- 

 Nymphcea* lily f und in still waters everywhere. 

 odorata Leaves dark green, pinkish beneath, ovate- 



White round, cleft at the base up to the long 



June - stem. The 'white flowers, often 5 inches 



in diameter when fully developed, open in 

 the morning and close at noon or later ; they are fre- 

 quently pink-tinged ; the golden stamens and anthers 

 are concentric, and are luminous in quality of color. 

 They mature after the stigma does, and cross-fertiliza- 

 tion occurs by the agency of bees and beetles in general. 

 The flower yields pollen only. The var. rosea, in south- 

 eastern Mass., and Nantucket, is deeply pink-tinged. 

 The var. minor is small, with flowers less than three 

 inches broad. 



A common odorless yellow pond-lily 



V A! Inns Dnnsf 



Lily w f Und f ten in the Same Water With the 



Spatter-dock preceding species. With ovate leaves or 

 Nuphar advena broader, and small, green and yellow cup- 

 Golden yellow shaped flowers, with 6 green sepals, some- 

 _ a ^~ . times purple-tinged, yellowish inside ; the 



petals yield nectar ; they are small, nar- 

 row, thick, and" yellow stamenlike. The stigma is a pale 

 ruddy or deep golden yellow-rayed disc, beneath which 

 the undeveloped anthers ere crowded. On the first 

 opening of the flower there is a triangular orifice over 

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