One of the most common water-lilies is the (Nyinpilea advent') which s all through the summer, but is not very beautiful. The leaves are ovate, or orbicular, with a deep sinus at the cordate base. They may be either floating or erect, especially when the plant grows In tidal streams, and is hkely to be left standing nearly out of water, ebbing of the tide. These pond-lilies are known as spatter-docks and frequently join with pickerel-weeds in obstructing a boat a passage to the shore, along which they stand in an extended ribbon. The flowers are flattened globes, made up of half a dozen thick, golden sepals, arching over the stamen-like sepals. The fruit is ovoid, somewhat constricted at the neck and contains edible seeds. The strong growing Pacific Coast representative of the spatter-dock is the Nymph,: frolysepaln, known to the Klamath Indians as hookas. It is very like the Eastern species. When fully mature, the large pods burst open irregularly at the base, and the entering water, when it reaches the %%bite, mealy intenor in which the seeds are Imbedded, at once starts a mucilaginous dissolu uon of it, which frees the seeds and allows them to sink into the water. These seeds were
once a staple farinaceous food of the Klamath Indians and arc still a favorite delicacy among them. The squaws betake themselves in canoes to the lily-patches and pluck the full-grown pods while soil hard, or scoop out those al ready dissolving' with a wicker spoon. The latter arc the more prised, and are deposited in holes in the ground, where the pods fer ment and turn into a mucilaginous mass from which the seeds may be freed by washing. Or the seeds may be extracted by other methods. They arc then prepared in various ways for eating. either as mush or meal, or merely parched; they arc delicious cooked in this 111111111W.
Netsnalio nehuitho is the Indian lotus; Ne hmisb., !urea is the American or yellow lotus of the Middle 11 est. It is also called water chinquapin, on account of its edible seeds. Consult standard authorities especially Bailey. 'Standard Cyclopedia of Iforticulture' (New York 1916).
or SWAMP LO CUST (GI/ilia:an aqualicia), a variety of hooey-locust indigenous to the Sontheru States.
See LOCUST.