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cause no ori.ß:inal can be obtained:,. I have never seen an ori,s:inali,r 
/neither irr- herb.. North, herb. . MuKac Univ. Britt . »ff.Linm Soc. , nor inr 
any other herbarium. . In Bernhardt ,who purchased thera,if I am not" 
mistaken^,is one flower and 1 leaf,without doubt from a cultivated:^,, 
small^ I^. od orata , mo s tl y dt^ermined as N.pygTriaea, corrected by pen- 
cil'as N.. pygmaea .. In the Botanical Garden of Ghent I found a" small^ 
form of Nymph . odorata as N. nitida, groim in a pot', of which I' saw 
only leaves and stems, white-grey below, rarer - however on the olcJ 
stockPtoward the border carmine.. Sims gives 3 characters as specificr 
for N. nitida: : 1) the rootstock is perpendicular and does not seem- 
ever acquire any considerable length; the Illustration of the rhi - 
zome is very defective.. but is not in anything different from the 
pityful jJ. odora ta. grown in a pot, from which 0^ judgement could' 
be made..The rhizome is only 2|** long^ and belongs certainly to a 
plant of only a few years age.. It can not be used to determine the 
characteristic, that the rhizome is perpendicular, because the rhi - 
zomes of youn^? plants, specially in loose soll; e.g. deep mud, are for 
the related N. alba in the youth itself to li^ ' long^, which may take 
10 years,, are very frequently verticaljänd turn horizontal only la- 
ter.. In order to base the statement of a vertical rhizome, Sims should 
have grown the plant in open soll and not in a pot.. 2))**'Venis (^folii). 
utrique exeratis'». Mr. Wolldener (Hort.Beril. No. XXMX) says of^ N. . 
odorata, which he saw alive in Berlinr ♦•venis impressis**. Sims believes,, 
that t Bot. Mag. + I652) Willderer did not have N. odorata but N. nitida 
in front of him^, because N. odorataj iad been assin*ned "prominent veins**' 
by Aitra (Eort Kew ed. 2 III292; Bigelow (Am. med. bot.. III 127)-Torrey/ 
(Fl. New York 38) i Already earlier I observed, that the veins of the 
dried leaf are at times raised, at tiraes caniculati,; I find this for 
N. odorata in pots in the Berlin botan. Garden to be present under- 
fresh conditions 
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