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N Y M P H U A lutea.
Yellow Water-Lily.
P O L 1"A N D R I A Monogynia.
G e n . C h a r . Cal. of 4 or $ leaves. Petals numerous,
Berry of many cells, truncated.
S p e c . C h a r . Leaves heart-fhaped, entire. Calyx fiveleaved,
much exceeding the corolla.
Syn . Nymph tea lutea. Linn. Sp. PI. 729. HudJ. FI.
An. 234. With. Bot. Arr. 554. Relh. Cant. 205%
, Raii Syn. 368.
A V ERY general inhabitant of rivers and large pools, flowering
about the middle of fummer very copioufly. Root perennial,
running deep into the mud. Leaves radical, on roundifh
footftalks flattened on one fide, which are longer or fhorter according
to the depth of the water, the leaf itfelf floating upon
the furface, to which its under fide is clofely applied, while the
upper remains dry. A remarkable line or furrow runs from
the infertion of the footftalk to the tip of the leaf; the margin
is entire. The flowers, as Ray obferves, fmell like brandy,
whence they are Vulgarly called in Norfolk brandy-bottles. The
calyx is of five large obovate concave yellow leaves, green externally
towards the bafe. Petals much fhorter, numerous, recurved,
very obtufe, thick and flefhy, yellow with an orange
fpot. Stamina and antherse recurved, moftly uniform. Ger-
men round and fmooth. Style fcarcely any. Stigma flattifh,
umbilicated, radiated, each ray anfwering to a cell in the berry;
which is fpongy, full of farinaceous feeds, not unlike thofe of
Millet, but larger. All the flamina, as well as the petals, are
inferted into the receptacle, not into the germen.