Water Lilies

Seele, /. soul shaft (of a blast furnace) core (as of a rope or cable) bore (of a tube). Seelenruhc,/. tranquillity mental rest. See-iicht, n. marine phosphorescence, -luft, /. sea air. -moos, n. sea moss, carrageen, -pflanze,/. marine plant, sea plant, -rose,/, water lily (esp., Nymphaea). -salz, n. sea salt, -sand, m. sea sand, -schiick, m. sea ooze, -seide,/. sea silk (from algae) byssus silk, -tang, m. seaweed (esp., Fucua), sea tang, -tier, n. marine animal -wasser, n. sea water. 

Other aquatic weeds such as reed mat, mangrove (leaves), and water lily (Nymphaceae family plants) have been found to be promising biosorbents for chromium removal. The highest Cr(III) adsorption capacity was exhibited by reed mat (7.18 mg/g), whereas for Cr(VI), mangrove leaves showed maximum removal capacity (8.87 mg/g) followed by water lily (8.44 mg/g). It is interesting to mention that Cr(VI) was reduced to Cr(III), with the help of tannin, phenolic compounds, and other functional groups on the biosorbent, and subsequently adsorbed. Unlike the results discussed previously for the use of acidic treatments, in this case, such treatments significantly increased the Cr(VI) removal capacity of the biosorbents, whereas the alkali treatment reduced it.118... 

Schor-Fumbarov, T., Keilin, Z., and Tel-Or, E., Characterization of cadmium uptake by the water lily Nymphaea aurora, International Journal of Phytoremediation, 5 (2), 169-179, 2003. 

Macrophytes Water lily, Nuphar luteum Whole Pondweed, Potamogeton richardsoni 0.5-1.8 DW 54... 

More about Claude Monet and his Water Lilies painting can be found at Pioch, N. WebMuseum, Paris, http //www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet 19 September 2002 (Accessed 12 January 2004). 

Dacey JWH. 1980. Internal winds in water lilies an adaptation for life in anaerobic sediments. Science 210 1017-1019. 

Dacey JWH. 1981. Pressurized ventilation in the yeUow water lily. Ecology 62 1137-1147. 

There are also other non-monoaminergic alkaloids in some sacred plants which enhance catecholaminergic function. The white and blue water lilies, Nymphaea ampla and caerulea were employed as hallucinogens in both the Old and New worlds. These species contain apomorphine (an opiate with dopamine agonist activity), together with nuciferine and nornuciferine. 

Elegami, A. A. et al., Two very unusual macrocyclic flavonoids from the water lily Nymphaea lotus. 

Eleven different anthocyanins from water lilies have been identified (Figure 10.15), and six among these are novel compounds reported after 1992. One or more anthocyanins containing a galloylgalactosyl moiety have been isolated from all examined species belonging to the... 

Fossen, T. and Andersen, 0.M., Cyanidin 3-(6"-acetylgalactoside) and other anthocyanins from reddish leaves of the water lily, Nymphaea alba, J. Hortic. Sci. Biotechnol, 76, 213, 2001. 

By some miracle, the cookie that he had not tasted since childhood had the ability to conjure his early days in a town he calls Combray, the old house where his aunt used to live, the water-lilies of the Vivonne, the garden flowers, the country roads, the church, the good folk of the village and their little dwellings. Proust wrote that visions took form and solidity as they emerged—city and gardens—from his cup of tea. 

Euryale femx Salisb. Qian Shi (Water lily) (seed) Protein, starch.53 Treat diarrhea, spontaneous emission, and leucorrhagia. 

Researchers at Texas A M University discovered that mood, blood pressure, and surgery recovery time can be influenced by art — but not just any kind of art. Patients who had Picasso reproductions in their rooms fared worse than those with blank walls, while some of those who gazed at Monet s water lilies recovered more quickly. I think Hans Selye must have loved beautiful paintings, too. After all, he was himself an artist of sorts. He carved part of the cortisol molecule into the cement outside his window when he was living on Milton Street near McGill. It s still there — a silent testimonial to the man my parents dragged me to see on that stressful day so long ago. 

The ideal solution would be a natural beetle predator. Well, one did exist. Word had come from Hawaii that a species of toad, bufo marinus had already earned the name cane toad for its ability to protect sugar cane by dining on grayback beetles. So, in 1935, Australia imported 102 cane toads from Hawaii to drive the pesky beetles out of town. The Australians made a special pond filled with beautiful water lilies to encourage the toads romantic behavior. The little creatures needed no encouragement, however, and soon the pond was alive with cane-toad tadpoles. When the toads matured, the cane growers deposited them in the cane fields, fully expecting the beetles to succumb to the toads voracious appetite. 

Exactly the opposite problem may occur for plants whose roots are growing in anaerobic media. In Hooded soils the roots may be exposed to high levels of irontll). posing potential problems of iron toxicity. Rice plants and water lilies with roots in anaerobic soils transport dioxygen (from the air or photosynthesis, or both) to the periphery of the roots where it oxidizes the iron(II) to irondll). In (his case the insolubility of Irondll) hydroxide is utilized to protect the plant from iron poisoning.113 A similar problem from too much iron occurs in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. 

These water lilies are ornamental aquatics of eastern Asia and North America, often included earlier in the Nymphaeaceae. 

Synonym Flag Lily, Liver Lily, Snake Lily, Water Lily. 

Note that these peats varied considerably in their botanical compositions. The Minnesota peat consisted predominantly of Sphagnum (peat moss) debris with some grasses and conifers. The Maine peat was composed mostly of algal material with some Sphagnum and Nymphaea (water lily) debris. The North Carolina peat was dominated by bay tree (Magnolia, Persea, Gordonia) and gum tree (Nyssa) debris while the Georgia Nymphaea peat consisted predominantly of Nymphaea debris. 

A tragic story of a 3-year-old boy in Florida (1997) illustrates this point. This young boy was in knee-deep water picking water lilies when he was attacked and killed by an 11-foot alligator. The heart-wrenching story was covered on television and in many newspapers around the nation. The Florida Game Commission has kept records of alligator attacks since 1948, and this was only the seventh fatality. 

Moon, chickweed, cleavers, watercress, cucumber, lettuce, water-lily, moonwort, wallflower, willow. 

JPymphaea caerulea (Egyptian blue lotus), N. ampla (Mayan water lily), Nelumbo nucifera (water lotus) (Nymphaeaceae) [flower], Papaver bracteatum (Papaveraceae) Egyptian blue lotus sacred, source of creation in wine gives tranquil euphoria ... 

We perched on either side of a slimy pond in the sunken garden and gazed intently into the jungle of water lilies as if we really cared about the fish that came gasping to the surface. But actually all I saw was our faces reflected dimly in the green water. 

Trich oblast.—An internal hair, like those projecting into the intercellular-air-spaces of the stems of certain Water Lilies. 

The reproducibility of the results for heated filament pyrolysers (CDS Pyroprobe 1000) and Curie point pyrolysers (Horizon Instruments) was reported for several samples [34]. This included several synthetic polymers, dammar resin, chitin, an insect cuticle, a hardwood (cherry), a seed coat (water lily), lycopod cuticle (fossil Eskdalia), as well as several organic geological samples. All samples were pyrolysed at 610° C for 5 s in a flow of helium. The residence time in the pyrolyser before pyrolysis was kept constant and the temperature of the sample housing was 250° C. Other parameters such as the temperature of the transfer line to the analytical instrument were also the same. Both systems were connected to a GC/MS system for the pyrolysates analysis. 

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