20 SAKRACENlACK.Ii. (I'lTCHER-l'LANT 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 Water-Li ly 



Sepals 5-6, obovatc, 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. (Bonnets. Spatter dock.) Leaves tliickish, 

 cordate, smooth or downy beneath, often emersed and erect, on stout jjetioles ; 

 sepals 6, the outer ones rounded ; petals numerous, thick and fleshy, truncate. — 

 In still water, common, flowering through the summer. 



2. N. sagittsefolia, Pursh Leaves thin, floating, on slender petioles, ob- 

 long, sagittate, smooth ; lobes at the Iiase expanding ; sepals 6 ; petals trans- 

 formed into stamens. — In still water near the coast, Georgia to North Carolina ; 

 rare. June -August. — Leaves 1° long, 2' wide. 



Order 9. SARRACENIACE.E. (Pitciier-Plaxt Fa.mily.) 



Perennial marsli herbs, with hollow pitcher or trunipet-shapod leaves, 

 and a naked or bracted scape, bearing few or solitary nodding liypogynous 

 flowers. Sepals 5, colored, persistent. Petals 5, imbricated in the bud, 

 deciduous, rarely wanting. Stamens numerous : anthers adnate, introrsc. 

 Ovary 5-eelled, many-ovuled. Placentjs central. Stylo single, 5-clcft, or 

 umbrella-shaped. Capsule 5-celled, many-seeded. Embrjo minute at the 

 base of fleshy albumen. 



1. SARRACENIA, L. Tru.mi-et-leaf. Side-Saddle Flower. 



Calyx 3-bractcd. Petals obovatc, drooping or incurved. Style umbrella- 

 shaped, 5-anglcd; 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 1 -winged, hairy within, 

 and usually containing water and dead insects. 



* Flowers pur})le. 

 1 S. purpurea, L. (Huntsman's Clp.) Leaves short, spreading, the 

 tube inflated, contracted at the throat, broadly winged ; lamina rcniform, erect, 

 hairy within, often purple-veined — Mossy swamps, Florida and northward. 

 April and May. — Leaves 4' - 6' long. Scapes 1° high. 



2. S. Psittacina, Michx. (Parrot-beaked Pitcher-Plant.) Leaves 

 short, spreading ; tube slender, broadly winged, marked with white spots, and 

 reticulated with purple veins ; lamina globose, inflated, incurved-beakcd, almost 

 closing the orifice of the tube. — Pine barren swamps, Florida and Georgia 

 April and May. — Leaves 2' -4' long. Scapes 1° high. 



