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POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Tima. 
Yellow Water Lily or Water-can. (Irish: Cohinih Auhun. Welsh : 
Bwltis ; Lili melyn y dwr. N.lutea. Sm. Prodr. FI. Gr. Hook. FI. Scot. 
JNymphcea lutea. Linn. &c. E.) Slow rivers, pools,, and ditches. River 
Avon, at Pershore. Mr. Ballard. (In the river Alt, by Formby, near 
Liverpool. Mr. Shepherd. E.) Common in the rivers and lakes of Norfolk 
and Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. Mere, near Scarborough. Mr. Travis. (In 
the loughs, near Shewing Shields, Northumberland. Winch Guide. In a 
piece of water entering the lawn, at Brockhall, Northamptonshire. E.) 
P. July—Aug.* 
(Var. 2. Lesser Yellow Water Lily* N. pumila. Hoffm. Sm. Hook. FI, 
Lond. t. 165. N. minima . E; Bot. 2292. Nymphcea lutea (5 minima. 
Willd. Differs from the commoner kind in being throughout only one 
half its size, the leaves scarcely attaining three inches in length and 
two in breadth ; the blossom not an inch over when fully expanded; but 
especially in its deeply toothed, green bordered stigma, and compressed 
foot-stalks. This interesting plant has been communicated to us by the 
kindness of N. J. Winch, Esq. who remarks that it is precisely N. lutea 
in miniature, and that the specific marks of the stigma toothed, or entire, 
are fallacious, as depending on the age of the seed-vessel. Discovered in 
1809 by Mr. W. Borrer in the lake near the farm of Corrie Chastel, at 
the foot of Ben-Cruachan; also in Loch Baladren. Loch of Monteith, 
Sterlingshire, between the islands and the shore. Mr. Arnott. Loch Duble, 
near Inverary. Mr. Maughan. In a small lake at the back of the inn of 
Aviemore. Hooker. Chartners Lough, on the Wallington Moors, 
Northumberland; J. Trevelyan, Esq.; by whom transplanted to fish 
ponds, and there observed to flourish for fifteen years beside N. lutea, 
still retaining its diminutive size ; though some writers have asserted a 
contrary tendency. E.) 
TII/IA.f Bloss. five petals : Cal. with five divisions, decidu¬ 
ous : Capsule nearly globular, five-celled, five-valved, 
coriaceous, opening at the base. 
T. Europje'a. Flowers without a nectary: (leaves cordato-acuminate, 
serrate: pericarp roundish, more or less angular and ligneous. E.) 
(Hook. FI. Lond. 190 — E. Bot. 610. E.)*— Ludw. 48 — Kniph. 10 — Sheldr. 
50 — Hunt. Evel. at p. 201 A.p. 194. Ed. 2d — FI. Dan. 553 — Blackw. 469 —■ 
Matth. 174 — Ger. 1298. 1—Dod. 838 —Lob. Obs. 606.1, and Ic. ii. 188. 1 
— Ger. Em. 1483. 1 — Park. 1407. 2 — Lonic. i. 33. 3 — Fuchs. 862 — J. B. 
i. b. 133 — Trag. 1110. 
* The roots rubbed with milk destroy crickets and cockroaches. Swine eat it. Goats 
are not fond of it. Cows, sheep, and horses refuse it. Linn. Ray observes that the 
flowers smell like brandy, (whence in some parts of England, in reference also to the 
remarkable form of the fruit, the plant is denominated Brandy-bottle. The Greeks 
prepare a cordial from its flowers. E.) An infusion of a pound of the fresh root to a 
gallon of water, taken in the dose of a pint, night and morning, cured a leprous eruption 
of the arm. (The leaves and flowers are employed in tanning ; the root is still better for 
that purpose. FI. Lond. This species, though less attractive than the preceding one, has 
an enlivening effect in combination with the other, and should be encouraged 
“ To spread its golden orbs upon the dimpling wave.” E.) 
+ (Supposed to be derived from r/Aov, a feather; alluding to the appearance of the flowers 
and floral-leaves. E.) 
