An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . 7S NYMPIIAEACEAE. Vol. II. Ovules very numerous on the walls of the ovary. Fruit a leathery several-seededberry. Seeds often shining, with the embr}0 enclosed in a sac at the base of thefleshy endosperm. Five genera and about 45 species, widely distributed in fresli waterPetals small or minute ; stamens large, numerous ; stamens epigynous. Nyinphaea.
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . 7S NYMPIIAEACEAE. Vol. II. Ovules very numerous on the walls of the ovary. Fruit a leathery several-seededberry. Seeds often shining, with the embr}0 enclosed in a sac at the base of thefleshy endosperm. Five genera and about 45 species, widely distributed in fresli waterPetals small or minute ; stamens large, numerous ; stamens epigynous. I. NYMPHAEA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 510. 1753. [NuPHAR Sibtli. & Smith, ¥\. Grace. Prodr. i : 391 lyoO.]Aqttatic herbs, with cylindric thick horizontal roolstocks, and large cordate leaves witha deep sinus. Flowers showy, yellow, or sometimes purplish. Sepals 5-6, concave, 03, small, stamen-like, Iiypogynotis. Stamens 00, hypogynous. Carpels 00^ many-ovuled. united into a compound pistil. Stigmas disciform, 8-24-radiate. Fruit ovoid, with endosperm. [Greek, water-nymph.] A genus of about 8 species, natives of the north temperate zone. Type species: Nyinphaealulea broadly ovate
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