PLex.thal. 83. NYMPH^EACEAS. 453. Nuphar. *707 
2. Nuphar minimum . Smallest ivater-can . 
Calyx 5-sepaled ; stigmata margined, toothed ; petiole 
2-edged ; leaves heartshape, lobes rather distant. 
Nymphaea Intea minima, Willd. S. P. 
Nuphar minima, Salisbury, Ann. Hot. 2, 69. 
Alpine lakes; perennial; July. 
Plant small ; leaves rather silky beneath ; flowers golden 
yellow ; stigmata edged with green. 
II. 454. NYMPHAEA. Theophrastus. Water-lilly . 
Calyx 4 or 5-sepaled, coloured ; petals many, indefinite, 
on the ovary ; stamens many ; filaments outer row dilated, 
petal-like ; stigmata many, radiated, cut, nectariferous 5 
berry globular, 8-celled, many-seeded; bark hard. 
Nymphcea alia . White water-lilly . 
Leaves heartshape, smooth beneath, edge not cut ; petals 
elliptical, oblong; stigmata 10, bent back; trunk horizontal. 
Nymphaea alba, Raii Syn. 363, 3; Ger. em. 819, 1 ; Lin. S. P, 729. 
Nymphaea alba major vulgaris. Park. 1251. 
White water can. Candock. When double, Water rose. 
Rivers and stagnant waters ; perennial; June and July. 
Leaf-lohes imbricate, roundish; flowers white, floating 
on the water; sepales 4, coloured above; inner petals smallest; 
outer stamens yellow, dilated ; fruit blunt. — Root bulbous, 
dyes dark brown ; is sometimes made into bread. 
Fam. XIX. 84. BERBERIDEiE. Jussieu. 
Calyx deciduous, sepales in 2 series, 2 or 3 in each series ; 
petals 4 or 6, opposite to the sepales ; stamens as many as 
the petals opposite to them ; anthers adnate, 2-celled, open- 
ing from the base to the tip by a valve; ovary 1, free; 
style 0; pericarpium 1 -celled; seeds affixed to the base of 
the cells ; perisperra fleshy ; corculum straight, axile ; radicle 
below . — Plant shrubby or herbaceous ; leaves alternate, 
often compound ; flowers racemose, bracteated. 
Petals and stam. 6; berry 1-celled .... Berberis. 455. 
Petals and stam . 4 ; pericarp 1-celled; 
2-valved Epimedium. 456. 
I. 455. BERBERIS. Brunsfel. Barberry . 
Outer sepales 3, inner 6 ; petals 6, glands 2, at the base 
of the petals; stamens irritable; stigma broad, sessile, um- 
bilicated, persisting; berry ovate, cylindrical, 1-celled, 2 or 
S-seeded. — Shrub thorny; leaves simple. 
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