652 POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ntmph2ea. 
lobed, the terminal one with three lobes; stem-leaves on short fruit- 
stalks, the upper sessile. Fruit-staUc slightly hairy, with one flower. 
Petals egg-shaped, pale yellow, scored towards the base. Woodw. 
{Juice lemon-coloured. E.) 
Yellow Poppy. Mountains of Wales, and about Kendal. By the 
Ferry-house on Winandermere, Westmoreland ; and near Holker, Lanca¬ 
shire. Mr. Woodward. (Mossdale head in Wensley Dale, Yorkshire. 
Mr. Brunton. On the Breiddin Hills, Montgomeryshire. Mr. Aikin. Craig 
Cwm Pistill, near Newton, ditto. Dr. Evans. About Pont Nedd Vachn, 
Aberdylais, &c. Glamorganshire, plentiful. Dillwyn. Bot. Guide. Near 
Pont Meredith, Denbighshire. Mr. Griffith. (At the waterfall of Lidford, 
on the borders of Dartmoor ; and woods about Endsleigh and Dunterton. 
Rev. J. Pike Jones. Near Portingseale, Cumberland. Mr. Winch. Braid 
woods. Mr. Arnott. Grev. Edin. Benbulben, Sligo. E. Murphy, Esq. E.) 
P. June—Aug.* 
NYMPHiE'A .f ( Cal. four or five-leaved, larger than the petals : 
Pet . numerous, inserted on the germen beneath the sta¬ 
mens : Berry many-celled, with a cortical coat: Nectary 
on the stigma. E.) 
N. al'ba. Leaves heart-shaped, very entire, (even beneath: calyx 
four-leaved: stigma of sixteen ascending rays. E.) 
FI. Dan. 605— Blackw. 498. a. and h. and 499 — E. Bot. 160 — Fuchs. 535— 
Trag. 696—J. B. iii. TIO—Gmel. iv. n—Matth. 893— Ger. 672. 1 —Clus. 
ii. 77. 1— Dod. 585. 1— Lob. Obs. 324. 1, and Ic. i. 595. 1 —Ger. Em. 819. 
1 —Park. 1351. 1— Pet. 71. 1. 
{ Leaves a span wide, oval, with a deep notch at the base. Leaf-stalks and 
flower-stalks cylindrical, cellular. Blossoms several inches over: pistils 
and stamens yellow. 
This most beautiful aquatic, the largest of its kind, floats its splendid 
white, or pinkish flowers, by broad leaves. E.) 
White Water-lily. Water-rose. Water-can. Can-dock. (Irish: 
Curririn ban. Welsh: Alaw; Magwyrwen. Gaelic: An duilleag-bhait; 
Rabhagach. E.) In slow rivers and ponds. Marazion Marsh. Mr. 
Stackhouse. (More frequent in ponds about Liverpool than N. lutea. 
Dr. Bostock: as in Somersetshire. E.) Equally common in the rivers 
and lakes of Norfolk and Suffolk with N. lutea. Mr. Woodward. Mere, 
near Scarborough. Mr. Travis. Between Blandford and Durweston ; 
common in the rivers Stour and Avon. Pulteney. (In Greenley lake, and 
Bromley lake, near Shewing Shields, Northumberland. Winch Guide. 
Both species frequent in Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Ragley, Warwickshire ; 
Snowdon Pool, near Bridgnorth. Purton. Seen to the greatest perfec¬ 
tion in the little bays and inlets of pellucid alpine lakes : in Loch Lomond 
acres are densely covered with it. Hooker. In all the northern English 
lakes. Mr. Winch. E.) River Sow, near Stafford. In the large pool at 
Patshull, Staffordshire. P. July.j 
* {Papaver Cambricum , Serratulct alpina, and Rhodiola rosea , were first identified as 
British plants by the celebrated apothecary and herbalist Thomas Johnson, in a botanical 
excursion to explore Snow'donia. Haplessly forsaking science for the sword, be shortly 
afterwards fell in the royal cause, an. 16‘44. E.) 
t (The 'Nv/u<poua ) of Theophrastus and Dioscorides, from being found in the haunts of 
the water Nymphs. E.) 
$ It extends itself by long runners terminating in a bulbous root, and sending up leaf- 
