 In another account, she was changed into a lotus tree to escape Priapus; later, Dryope picked a flower off the tree Lotis had become, and was transformed into a black poplar.In Book 6 of the "Fasti" Ovid tells much the same story, but with the goddess Vesta rather than Lotis as the intended victim.According to some sources, Lotis was the daughter of Neptune or Nereus.