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Nymphaea fluviatilis Harper (Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 234-236, 1906.) 
(Plate 19.2.) 
In creeks, rivers and estuaries from Franklin and Jackson Counties west¬ 
ward; not rare in West Florida. Has no objection to muddy water, and prob- 
atdv does not enter very largely into the composition of peat. 
The range of this species is not well understood yet, but it is common in 
South Georgia, and probably extends northeastward to North Carolina and 
northwestward to the vicinity of Birmingham, Ala. 
Nymphaea sagittifolia Walt. 
Rather common in estuaries around Milton. Not known elsewhere in 
Florida, or in either of the adjoining states, but it is common near the boundary 
between North and South Carolina, in the coastal plain. 
Nelumbo lutea (Willd.) Pers. Winkepin. Yankapin. Water Chinquapin. 
Grows in several of the lakes of Leon County. Also in a pool near Waldo, 
where it is doubtless introduced. Said to be common in Alligator Lake, Columbia 
County. 
Widely but very irregularly distributed in the glaciated region and coastal 
plain. 
Brasenia purpurea (Mx.) Caspary 
In several lakes and ponds in Leon County, and doubtless in some other 
counties in Middle Florida. It is very apt to turn up in artificial or accidental 
ponds as well as in natural ones. 
Widely distributed in our glaciated region and coastal plain; also reported 
from various other parts of the world. 
Cabomba Caroliniana pulcherrima Harper (Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 328 
I903-) 
In a small estuarine creek about two miles northwest of Apalachicola. Col¬ 
lected by Rugel in 1843 in Lake Iamonia, Leon Co., and found by the writer in 
Decatur County, Georgia, in 1901. 
MAGNOLIACEAE. Magnolia Family. 
Magnolia glauca L. (White) Bay. (Plate 27.1. Figs. 19, 21.) 
Common nearly all over the State, in swamps whose water fluctuates very 
little, or in soil which is always moist but never inundated. It avoids alluvial 
swamps and seems to prefer sour swamps, but is often found in muddy estuarine 
swamps, calcareous swamps, and even in low hammocks. (In other states it 
seems to shun limestone.) It is the most abundant tree in non-alluvial swamps 
in the lake region, and in clumps on peat prairies. 
Long Island to Texas, mostly in the coastal plain. 
