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grown in our hothouseg of N, odorata I saw with stipules with mar- 
gine«. 
Paine says about his N,.tuberosa : ••connectivo stamine exterioc^ 
runr supra antherae in cuspidem elongato-: You wite to me, that^ y^w 
find- this also for odorata near St. Louis and I can confirm this- of 
W. odorata of all localitieff. f rom which 1 saw thenr,froTn Canada to 
Florida, Texas and Guiana.. The outer and middle stamina of all species 
have Qntherae appendiculatae; as the expression is, the appendix has 
latitude: : Wegiter 1 :-i - Ii* Unf ortunately I have notjyet seen flo- 
wers of Paine* s N. tuberosa> ■ It is necessary, that the relationr of 
width to length of the appendix be noted also for N. tuberosa> 
THERE IS A DRAWING PN PAGE 13 OF THE ORIGINAL 
The hair,with which the rhizomes or tuber osa Paine are covered:^ 
are most striking, . They are in part like the other Nymphaceae , in 
which^many cells-lie behind each oth^r,4 - 6 and more = a.and others 
with thicker hair= br,the base of which shows^ several. up to 3 cells 
in width. Such hair are otherwise not known- f or the Nymphaceae>. 
There are several names of american Nymph aeae» which are little or 
not known at aliy and are either to be reckoned with N^odorata^ or 
may belong to her and N».tuberosa ». These are N3rmphaea nitida Sims 
(Bot.Mag. XXXIII 1. 1359)^ rosea Rafinesquei (Med.Fl,. I830 II ^5)); 
I^.maculata Rafin.. (h.c>); F.; N. spicata Raf . ♦ ( h. c . ) ; N.parkeriana 
Lehmann (in Otto Hamburger Garten und Legujnenzeitmng I853 I!X p.529); 
Nymphaea parkeriana Lehm> . collected by a certain Mr.Parker in Guiana-.. 
Originals I saw in h.Mooker and h. Lehmann-, whose Nymphaceae I purcha— 
sed after Lehmann* s death-, is nothing eise but a small form of Nyffl> . 
odorata, who* se leaf stems are on top partiallj^^ hairy, though very 
little.. 
Though Nymphaea nitida Sims has been illustrated:,and was much 
cultivated in Europe, there exists much' obscurt^/^about the plante be - 
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