. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). NUPHAR THE BULB BOOK NYMPHjEA NUPHAR (from naufar, the Arabic for Water Lily). Nat. Ord. Nymphae- aceae. — A small genus of aquatic plants closely related to the Water Lilies proper (Nymphwa), having thick fleshy root - stocks, roundish heart-shaped leaves deeply lobed at the base, and large yellow flovfers with numerous p
. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). NUPHAR THE BULB BOOK NYMPHjEA NUPHAR (from naufar, the Arabic for Water Lily). Nat. Ord. Nymphae- aceae. — A small genus of aquatic plants closely related to the Water Lilies proper (Nymphwa), having thick fleshy root - stocks, roundish heart-shaped leaves deeply lobed at the base, and large yellow flovfers with numerous petals and stamens surrounding a peltate rayed stigma in the centre. The culture is exactly the same as described below for Nymph^a. N. advenum. — A native of the lakes, ponds, and ditches of N. America, having large yellow flowers with red anthers to the stamens {Bot. Mag. t. 684, as NymphcBa). N. luteam.—This is the Yellow Water Lily or "Brandy Bottle" of Britain. It has roundish deeply. Fig. 282.—Nuphar luieum. lobed leaves 8 to 12 ins. across, and produces its sweet - scented yellow flowers from June to August slightly above the surface of the water. N. pumllum {Nymphma Ealmiana). —This species is found wild not only in Britain, but also over Arctic and Central Europe and Asia. It is like N. luteum, but is smaller in all parts, and has eight to ten rays to the stigma instead of ten to thirty. {Bot. Mag. t. 1243.) NYMPHffiA (from nymphe, a water- nymph), Watee Lily. Nat. Ord. Nympliseacese.—A genus containing between forty and fifty species of water-plants, with thickish fleshy roots, roundish leaves lobed at the base, and solitary flowers on fleshy stalks, on, or some little distance above, the surface of the water. The flowers have four sepals, numerous petals gradually becoming smaller from the outside inwards and passing into stamens. Carpels numerous, sunk in a fleshy disc forming a many- celled ovary surmounted by radiating stigmas, and ultimately
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