- 3 - R- Ca spar y Peb. 10, l866_ 
Varieties are based on D Color. Pursch (?!• Am.sept. 1824 ir 
368) created a variety ^ rosea; foliis co^datis integerrimi s, 
cWu^i^' ci^'^oorlcatls; acutis, petiolis pedunculis folloque 
subtus purpureis, . calycibus petalioque 
•The variety- is probably a distinct Speeles. which only further 
obse^^^^atior. ca^. decide ? About the shape of the Isaf, which Fursch 
also mentions as character of the variety, later.. Now only about the 
color. .Was thls In Pursch« s ß rosea corstant ?■ No 1 Purschbrouerht: 
hls Dlarts hlnself to Sr^lard, where thev were cu.ltl^^ated"", and were 
not any more rosy-colored white, as ^ Sim«s (could be Kim's.E.D..) 
(Bot. Majr. L« t, I652) reiDorts, He, thus, removes hinseif from the co- 
lor as c"^_aracter , and takes a poo^er one, the slze, as hls refu.?e,and 
calls Pu:^sch's plant a var, ^ minor. As to the colo:-atlcn of the leaf. 
b-sed on the exlstlns- drled naterlal and also the cul tl vated , your^^ 
plants.it varles fron ll^ht Keranlstln ( a red color ? il.D.) to a 
de^se yellow-green, whlch does not even at the rln show a trace of 
Keranlstln.which can be seen: : Even the cclore of the leaf Is too 
variable a :nark f or baslns" ^.^arletles on lt.. At best, where the colo- 
ratlon Is oulte strlklng,.a sub' - or sub- sub- variety could be based 
on lt. .The ^ minor Slm« s Is belng nentloned as s3mony]ir-by the au - 
trhor hlmself:;N. odo-ata --^^smaller Thor, and Gray 'Fl . ■ N. A.. I838 -^0 
p.- 57 and N. odorata var ^ smaller Z. Torney FLlNTe^^york 18^0 p. 38,. 
though in. contradlctlon wlth Sims; who'se plant Is belne- descrlbed 
as whlte-flowe-lng m', that .^smaller Thörey and Grayand var. 
smaller Torney have ^flowers rosecolored** . Klnp: (?'E.r. ) odorata 2 
Rubella Raflnesquii Medlc.Fl. I830 II ^0 "tlns-ed wlth rose** Is thus 
based only on color'.an untenable variety, .as also herewlth 3.. Chlo- 
rhlza **wlth yellow roots** I.e. rnizomas, whlch In normal plants are 
••blacklsh**accordlng to Raflnesque I N:/mphaea alba has blacklsh and also 
