. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. YELLOW POND-LILY. PLATE 356. NYMPH/EA (NUPHAR) ADVENA. (WATER-LILY FAMILY.) Smixttk aifuatic: nh>titiHi tU^t, tAnitn^tt: tfuii-s thnli, u. pntuHiled; Sffitxis Uiually nx. largf. yrlUm „ Jinali,, prCali mot, lilt iiini; /tffiii/rs, ('I'll/,-,'W'Mi.', iintft"iis, small: stamrm tr»f i'A/««c at afn, dffpl\ h^attiltapta ai mamin (>/im.»W> tt<-ntale; floieers long tiiimriaiii; /rHit frnpimtui, coHStsttng nf mtmetom unitt-d carpils. " Where tile dark waters lave,
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. YELLOW POND-LILY. PLATE 356. NYMPH/EA (NUPHAR) ADVENA. (WATER-LILY FAMILY.) Smixttk aifuatic: nh>titiHi tU^t, tAnitn^tt: tfuii-s thnli, u. pntuHiled; Sffitxis Uiually nx. largf. yrlUm „ Jinali,, prCali mot, lilt iiini; /tffiii/rs, ('I'll/,-,'W'Mi.', iintft"iis, small: stamrm tr»f i'A/««c at afn, dffpl\ h^attiltapta ai mamin (>/im.»W> tt<-ntale; floieers long tiiimriaiii; /rHit frnpimtui, coHStsttng nf mtmetom unitt-d carpils. " Where tile dark waters lave, Wllere the tall rushes wave. Safe from riule winds that rave, Iloals tile fair ;— NKAR relative of the beautiful is the Yellow Pond-lily, Nymphaa. The name Nymphaea is usually applied to the White Water lily, the yellow being called Xuphar. The name was given the Water-lilies by the Greeks, who appropriately dedicated these aipialic plants to the n\ niphs of fountain and lake. The Yellow Pond-lily is .sometimes called Frog-lily or .Splatter-diK'k, for it has a depraved taste for growing in slimy ponds and sluggish streams. It is altogether a coarser and less handsome flower than its cousin. .\s in the White Water-lily, the leaves float on the surface of the water. They are much like those of the , but are oblong instead of round. They are light and spongy, full of air, well fitted to rest on water. The flower is not handsome. The showiest part is the caly.^. This is colored to look like petals. Usually bright yellow in tint, it is sometimes blotched with purple-red. 'i he Yellow Water lily is even more common in this country than its aristocratic cousin. It is a very familiar object in pools and bogs, flowering from May until the close of the O C'S= -_^ u. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of t
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