. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. TAXONOMY—NYMPHAEA CANDIDA. 173 the ovary. Pollen granulate with smooth operculum, larger than in N. alba.—Ovary ovate or roundish, usually contracted and destitute of stamen insertions below the stigma.—Carpels 5 to 14; styles linear, flattened, breadth: length = i: to ; apex rounded or somewhat acute. Stigma concave, yellow, red or violet, the rays terminat- ing usually in 3 teeth (a central and two lateral) on the base of each style. Axile pro- cess slender.—Fruit ovoid or spherical; in the former case, narrowed below the stigma, which
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. TAXONOMY—NYMPHAEA CANDIDA. 173 the ovary. Pollen granulate with smooth operculum, larger than in N. alba.—Ovary ovate or roundish, usually contracted and destitute of stamen insertions below the stigma.—Carpels 5 to 14; styles linear, flattened, breadth: length = i: to ; apex rounded or somewhat acute. Stigma concave, yellow, red or violet, the rays terminat- ing usually in 3 teeth (a central and two lateral) on the base of each style. Axile pro- cess slender.—Fruit ovoid or spherical; in the former case, narrowed below the stigma, which stands as it were on a short thick column surmounting the berry; greenish or reddish; subtended by the persistent sepals; diameter to cm.—Seed larger than in N. alba, ellipsoid, brownish, cm. long; aril longer than the seed. Leaf cleft at base to the petiole, sub-orbicular to oval, 10 or 12 to 30 cm. long and 25 cm. wide, entire.—Sinus, depth : length of leaf = i: ; lobes nearly equal, inner margins curved, overlapping a little above, and spreading out toward periphery of leaf (or straight, and parallel or touching) ; angles more or less acute. Veins on under sur- face of leaf prominent, the lowest pair (i. e., those running into the lobes) curved, and, if produced, would cross, inclosing an oval area. —Petiole terete, smooth. Rhizome stout, 5 cm. or more in diameter, horizontal, with strong lateral roots, but often without side- branches ; apex surrounded by peti- oles, peduncles and stipules. Phyl- lotaxy about 13 on 34 with very short internodes; the surface of the rhizome may almost be said to con- sist of large leaf-cushions. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.— Northern and arctic Europe and Asia, south to the mountains of Ger- many and the Himalayas. Krumme- See, near Grubno, in West Prus- sia (Caspary 1884). Canton St. Gallen, in Switzerland (Gremli 1882). Lojo in Poland (Lindberg 1881). Herjedalen in Sweden (Behm 1887). Far north in Finland (Saelan
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