. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. Order 9.—THE "WATER LILIES. 155 NELUM'BIUM. Nelmnbo. The character of the genus the same as that of the order. N. latetun. Yellow Kdumho. A magnificcDt flowering plaut, frequent in the stag- nant waters of the South and West, rare in K. Y. and Conn. The leave:* are l-2f. broad, round, entire, peltate in the centre, which is concave, and elevated above the water more or less on the long petioles. Flowers several tiraea larger than the White Water Lily, but wit
. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. Order 9.—THE "WATER LILIES. 155 NELUM'BIUM. Nelmnbo. The character of the genus the same as that of the order. N. latetun. Yellow Kdumho. A magnificcDt flowering plaut, frequent in the stag- nant waters of the South and West, rare in K. Y. and Conn. The leave:* are l-2f. broad, round, entire, peltate in the centre, which is concave, and elevated above the water more or less on the long petioles. Flowers several tiraea larger than the White Water Lily, but without fr^rance. Petals concave, of a brilliant white at edge, becoming yeUow towards the base. Nuts (called Water-beans) about as large as acorns, eatable. Jun^y July. Order IX.—NTMPH^ACEiE. The Water Iiilies. Herbs aquatic, with, roundish leaves from a prostrate rhizoma; flowers large and showy, the sepals, petals, and stamens gradnally passing into each other, imhricated and arranged in many rows; sepals few, colored inside, persistent; stigmas radiating and crowning the ovary, which in fruit becomes a capsule compound and 5-celled; seeds minute, numerous, with the embryo at the end of the Analysis of the Genera. ^ Petals large as the sepals, white, red, ' or blue. NYMPH^fi'A. 1 Petals smaller than the sepals, stamen- like, yellow. Jrog Lily, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, Alphonso, 1810-1881. New York : A. A. Barnes
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