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“came as near hating Salisbury as a bishop could well do.” In any case, the personal element does not enter into the matter 
to-day ; and Britten’s argument that the restoration of Salisbury’s names is a “ tardy act of reparation ” involves an outlook 
on botanical nomenclature which fortunately has few sympathisers. 
Some American botanists take up another position. The species which comes first in the original arrangement of the genus 
is regarded by them as “the type of the genus,” and as determining the allocation of the name should the genus be subdivided into 
two or more genera by later botanists. Hence, on their view (see Miller and Standley North Amer. Species of Nymphaea 1 , 65 (1912)), 
as the first Linnaean species of Nymphaea is N. lutea , the name Nymphaea should be retained for the yellow water-lilies. This 
plan seems to us as arbitrary and as unreasonable as it would be to regard the first building, perhaps a prison or perhaps 
a stable, encountered on entering a village as the type-building of that village. 
Between the publication of Salisbury’s names and those of Smith, Richard ( loc . cit. ) published the name of Nymphozanthus 
for the yellow water-lilies ; but the name appears not to have been adopted by any other botanist. 
Bubani (loc. cit.) proposed Nymphona as substitute for Nuphar on pedagogical grounds : it appears that the ancients 
restricted the word nuphar to the root of the plant. 
About 7 — 8 (Engler) or about 24 s species ; extra-tropical northern hemisphere. 
British species of Nuphar 
1. Nuphar lutea (see below). Flowers about 6 — 7 cm. in diameter. Anthers about 4 times 
as long as broad. Stigmas about 15 — 20. 
2. Nuphar pumila (p. 98). Flowers about 4 cm. in diameter. Anthers not more than 
twice as long as broad. Stigmas about 8 — 12. 
I. NUPHAR LUTEA. Yellow Water-lily. Plate 92 
Nymphaea lutea Gerard Herball 672 (1597); Ray Syn. ed. 3, 368 (1724). 
Nuphar lutea Sibthorp and Smith FI. Graec. Prodr. i, 361 (1808 or 1809); Smith Eng. FI. iii, 15 (1825); 
Rouy et Foucaud FI. France i, 149 (1893); Nymphaea lutea L. Sp. PI. 510 (1793); Smith Eng. Bot. no. 159 
( 1 793 ) J PI Brit. 569 (1800); Nymphaea umbilicus Salisbury op. cit. 71 (1806); Nuphar lutea var. major Syme 
Eng. Bot. i, 78 (1863). 
leones : — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 159, as Nymphaea lutea ; Graves and Hooker in Curtis’s FI. Lond. ed. 2, t. 141 ; 
FI. Dan. t. 603, as Nymphaea lutea ; Svensk Bot. t. 266, as Nymphaea lutea ; Reichenbach Icon, vii, t. 63, fig. 113. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 92. (a) Leaves. ( b ) Flower, (c) Stigmatic disc, (d) Stigmatic disc from a 
different plant, (e) Fruit. (/) Transverse section of fruit, (g) Seeds, c from Cambridgeshire (C. E. M.). Other 
plant from Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 2007 ; Herb. FI. Ingric. vi, 32. 
Perennial. Rhizome stout. Shoot glabrous. Leaves submerged or floating, with stout petioles ; 
laminae of the submerged leaves larger (about 15 — 25 cm. in diameter) than the floating leaves (about 
10 — 20 cm. in diameter), thinner than the floating leaves, crumpled, longer than their petioles ; laminae 
of the floating leaves much shorter than their petioles, broadly elliptical, deeply cordate at the base, the 
basal lobes over-lapping or contiguous or slightly spreading, margin entire, apex rounded, coriaceous in 
texture. Inflorescence solitary. Flowers with the odour of brandy, about 5 — 7 cm. in diameter ; June to 
August. Outer perianth-segments suborbicular, conniving, rather thick, greenish on the outside, yellowish 
on the inside. Inner perianth-segments deep yellow, oboval, about a third as long as the outer ones. 
Anthers about 4 times as long as broad. Stigmas about 15 — 22, the rays acute at each end, scarcely 
reaching the margin of the disc. Margin of the stigmatic disc entire or only faintly wavy. Fruit 
broadly bottle-shaped, about 6 — 7 cm. long, including the neck, and 4^5 — 5^0 broad. 
(/ 3 ) forma submersa comb. nov. ; N. lutea var. submersa Rouy et Foucaud FI. France i, 149 (1893). 
This is the submerged state of the species : it is not uncommon in deep waters, especially in rivers ; and it seldom 
flowers or fruits. 
In still and in slowly moving waters, as in the almost still waters of lakes, ponds, and ditches, and 
in rivers with a slow current in summer, preferring water with a high mineral content ; less common (in 
the Fen district) in still waters than Nymphaea alba ; rather local but widespread throughout the low- 
lands of the British Isles as far northwards as the Hebrides and Ross-shire. 
Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, central Europe (ascending to 530 m. 
in the Tyrol), Russia, southern Europe; Asia. 
1 Contributions from the US. National Herbarium , xvi, pt. 3 ; Washington. 
2 “ Half-a-dozen forms have until recently been supposed to represent the specific differentiation of the American members 
of the group. Their number is now increased to nineteen” (Miller and Standley, loc. cit. (1912)). 
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