POLYANDPJA, MONOGYNIA. 
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Nympligea advena, Willd. 
N. aritblia, Salisbury. 
Icon. Bot. Mag, 684. Willd. liort. berol. 38. 
Splatter-dock. 
From two to three feet high, with very large leaves. In 
great profusion on the marshy shores of the Delaware, Schuyl- 
kill, and all other waters in our neighbourhood, covering the 
shores for miles together in extent. Also in ditches, very 
common. Flowers yellow, globular. Perennial. July, August. 
£. N. leaves cordate, lobes approximating, calix Kaimiana. 
5-!eaved, stigma incised, 8-12-rayed. — Mt, 
Kew. ed. 2d. 
Nymphsea Kaimiana, Bot. Mag. 
N. lutea, /3 Kalniiana, Mich. 
N. microphylla, Fers. 
N.Iutea, Walt 
N. minima, MuhL, but not N. lutea,Var. minima, 
Willd. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 1243. 
Small water Lily. 
Leaves floating, one-third as large as the preceding; flow- 
ers yellow, also floating; about half an inch in diameter. In a 
pool on the east shore of the Schuylkill, about a mile south of 
the falls; very rare. 1 have not found it in any other locality. 
Perennial. July, August. 
246. NYMPH^A. Gen. pi. 886. {Hydrocharides.) 
Calix 4 or 5-leaved. Petals many, inserted 
upon the germ beneath the stamina. Stig- 
ma orbicular, radiated, sessile, nectarife- 
rous in the centre. Capsule carnose, many- 
celled, many- seeded, superior. — Jrutt. 
1. N. leaves orbiculate-cordate, very entire, sub- o<J<»ata. 
emarginate, the lobes divaricate, with a blunt 
point ; calix 4-leaved. — Mt. and Willd, 
