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R, Caspary 
Feb. 10. 1865 
times,that Parry had found it in the Rocky Mountains, thoiigh he had not 
described|(t, and, which you sent me at one time a piece of sepalum,, 
which I doubted as Coming from a Nuphar,. as it did not show any stem^- 
hair at all^ on the inside?: I am anxious to see, if it really has no 
Stern hair..In a well ^^r\o^m place I T^rote:- With Nuphar adv&na the co- 
lo!P variety with carmin-red"' petals and tips of the lomanties is more 
common^ than the entirely yellow colored ones.. You ask, where this^ 
news comes from ? You saw theJT^always only yellow and all florist^ the 
same way (' Elliott, Gray,, Beck, Torrey) • - 1 do not have at hand Elliott 
and Beck. Torrey (Fl. of New York 18^3 I ^0) does not give any informa- 
tion about the color of petals and neither does Torrey and 
Gray^:(Fl. North Americ. I 57) , .In my excerpts from Asa Gray* s Manuali 
I have unf ortunately nothing about color indication.. Hox-jever Aiton- 
(Bot. Mag. XTII 68^ ) . illustrates the flower with stemr.who'se joints 
( ? E.D,) and rims of anthers are red, (Reichert Fl.exot. I t..l2 notes 
this also) - but in the description- he mentions nothing of red.. The 
only other existing"- colored illustration of N ympR^ea ' adveha (Vittv. 
hört, berol. t XXXVI II) has the stem yellow (Petals not to be seen)\ 
Aiton (hört. Ravens. I789 II 226) calls the petals rubro-f lavi scantia 
and the filaments flava, but medio rubra ?"Umberg (could be Amberg, E. D. .) 
(Cat. R. Am.sept. I813 S 2) calls M^^ ^ j^^xool advena striped-f lowered'* 
and Nuphar luteum ( the species name shoiAm in the original is^leum** ,E. D. .) 
yellow-flowered»*.. The striped-f loiArered'* refers assumedly to the red: 
stripes, which show the rims of the anthers*. Further, . Ihave not seenr 
a flower of a Ii Ving- Nuphar advena .- I' examined the numerous^ and from^- 
different years from the hort.lipsiensi s (Leipzig Botanical Garden, E. D..) 
, where they prosper beautifully^ in the open^,: which did not" show on the 
inner axis of the petals (most of them) ' a 1 large or 2 nice red spots,, 
the m.aJority I saw had red rims-. On the numerous dried material' I could 
of course not discover any color.. 
