20 SARRACENIACEJE. (PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY.) 
sinus and obtuse lobes. (N. reniformis, Walt.) — Ponds and still water, Florida 
and northward. May-June. — Flowers white, 2/— 4' wide, fragrant, expanding 
in the morning. Petioles and peduncles occasionally villous. 
2. NUPHAR, Smith. YELLOW Warer-Lity 
Sepals 5-6, obovate, yellow. Petals 10-20, stamen-like, hypogynous. Sta- 
mens numerous, at length recurved, persistent. Ovary cylindrical, many-celled. 
Stigma sessile, circular. Berry oblong. Seeds smooth, without arils — Leaves : 
cordate or sagittate, floating or erect. Flowers yellow, erect. 
1. N. advena, Ait (Boxyers. Sparrer-pock.) Leaves thickish, 
cordate, smooth or downy beneath, often emersed and erect, on stout petioles ; 
sepals 6, the outer ones rounded ; petals numerous, thick and fleshy, truncate. — 
In still water, common, flowering through the summer. 
2. N. sagitteefolia, Pursh. Leaves thin, floating, on slender petioles, ob- 
long, sagittate, smooth; lobes at the base expanding ; sepals 6; petals trans- 
formed into stamens. — In still water near the coast, Georgia to North Carolina; 
rare. Junc- August. — Leaves 1° long, 2’ wide. 
ORDER 9. SARRACENIACEJE. (Prrcugn-PrANT FAwILY.) 
Perennial marsh herbs, with hollow pitcher or trumpet-shaped leaves, 
and a naked or bracted scape, bearing few or solitary nodding hypogynous 
flowers. Sepals 5, colored, persistent. Petals 5, imbricated in the bud, 
deciduous, rarely wanting. Stamens numerous: anthers adnate, introrse. 
Ovary 5-celled, many-ovuled. Placentz central. Style single, 5-cleft, or 
umbrella-shaped. Capsule 5-celled, many-seeded. - Embryo minute at the 
base of fleshy albumen. 
1. SARRACENIA, L. TnuwPET-LEAF. SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. 
Calyx 3-bracted. Petals obovate, drooping or incurved. Style umbrella- 
shaped, 5-angled; the angles emarginate, and bearing the minute hooked stig- 
mas beneath. Capsule globose, rough, loculicidally 5-valved. — Scape bractless, 
1-flowered. Flowers large, purple or yellow. Leaves l-winged, hairy within, 
and usually containing water and dead insects, ' 
: * Flowers purple. 
1. S. purpurea, L. : (HoxrswAN's Cur.) Leaves short, spreading, the 
tube inflated, contracted at the throat, broadly winged ; lamina reniform, erect, 
hairy within, often purple-veined. — Mossy swamps, Florida and northward. 
April and May. — Leaves 4'— 6! long. .Beapes 19 high. ~ iuo 
2. S. Psittacina, Michx. (PARROT-BEAKEp Pitcner-Prant.) Leaves 
short, spreading; tube slender, broadly winged, marked with white spots, and — 
reticulated with purple veins; lamina globose, inflated, incurved-beaked, almost — 
losing the orifice of the tube.— Pine barren swamps, Florida and Georgia. —— 
