Nortliumb. and Durli. p. SG. — Rev. G. E. Smith’s PI. of S. Kent, p. 30. — Don's 
Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. i. p. 127. — Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p. 149. — Bab. FL 
Batli. p. 3. — Mack. Catal. of PI. of Ivel. p. 51. ; FI. Hibern. p. 12. — Nympkaa 
lutea, Engl. Bot. t. 159. — Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 819.— Ray’s Syn. p. 368. — Linn. 
Sp. PI. p. 729. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 234. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. ii. p. 569. — 
Willd. Sp. PI. v. ii. pt. II. p. 1151. — With. (5th edit.) v. iii. p.598. — Lightf. FI. 
Scot. v. i. p. 282. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 167. — Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 117.— Davies’ 
Welsh Bot. p. 53. — Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 251. — Relh. FI. Cant. (3rded. ) p. 214. 
Localities. — In watery ditches, lakes, and slow rivers ; frequent. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June and July. 
Trunk of the root large and fleshy, horizontal, producing, from 
its under side, many long, stout radicles, which are fibrous at the 
extremity. Leaves on long, 2-edged footstalks (petioles), floating, 
10 or 12 inches wide, entirely smooth and even, bright green above, 
paler underneath, with branched raised nerves or veins, heart- 
shaped, rounded at the summit, and generally at the lobes, which 
meet and lap over each other. Flowerstalks nearly or quite cylin- 
drical, 1 -flowered. Flower about two inches wide. Calyx much 
larger than the corolla, of five roundish, blunt, upright, concave 
sepals, which are entire, somewhat sinuated, smooth, tough, and 
of a golden yellow, except at the base on the outside, where they 
are green. Corolla of from 10 to 20, small, blunt, fleshy, orange- 
coloured petals (see t. 282, f. 1, b). Stamens very numerous, when 
the flower first opens pressed closely on the germen, but after they 
have shed their pollen bending back ; filaments yellowish, thicker 
than the anthers, which are yellow, and about two lines in length. 
Germen egg-shaped, blunt, smooth. Style none. Stigma yellow, 
a little convex, with from about 10 to 15 rays. Fruit large, smooth, 
shaped like a bottle or flagon, terminated by the flat, dilated stigma. 
Seeds numerous, large. The flowers smell like brandy, whence 
they ate called Brandy-bottles in some places. 
This species is a native throughout the whole of Europe and Siberia, in ditches, 
lakes, and slow rivers ; also of N. America, between latitude 54°. and 64°. The 
roots, bruised and ihfused in milk, are said to be destructive to beetles and cock- 
roaches ; they are also sometimes burned, to get rid of crickets, to which the 
smoke is peculiarly obnoxious. Swine will eat this plant ; goats are not fond of 
it ; cows, sheep, and horses refuse it. — Dr. Withering says, that an infusion of a 
pound of the fresh root to a gallon of water, taken in the dose of a pint, night and 
morning, cured a leprous eruption of the arm. 
The Natural Order, Nyjmpii/la'ce.®, is composed of dicotyledonous, herba- 
ceous, aquatic plants, whose leaves are peltate or heart-shaped, and their flowers 
mostly large and very beautiful, each on a long cylindrical peduncle. The sepals 
and petals are numerous, imbricated, and pass gradually into each other, the 
former persistent, the latter inserted upon the disk which surrounds the pistillum. 
The stamens are numerous, and inserted above the petals into the disk; their 
filaments flattish ; their anthers adnate, strap-shaped, and burst inwards by a 
double longitudinal cleft. The dis/c is large and fleshy, and surrounds the ovary 
either wholly or in part. The ovary is many-seeded, and many-celled, with 
the stigmas radiating from a common centre upon a sort of flat urcedate cap. 
The fruit is many-celled, and indehiseent. The seeds, which are very numer- 
ous, are attached to spongy dissepiments, and enveloped in a gelatinous arillus. 
The albumen is farinaceous. The embryo small, on the outside of the base of 
the albumen, enclosed in a membranous bag. Cotyledons foliaceous. See 
Lindley's Synopsis, p. 15. 
