20 SAnUACKNlACE.E. (riTCIlKU-rLANT FAMILY.) 



sinus and obtuse lobes. (N. rcnifomiis. Wall.) — Ponds and still water, Florida 

 and nortbward. May -June. — Flowers white, 2' -4' wide, fragrant, expanding 

 in the morning. Petioles and peduncles oceasionally villous. 



2. NUPHAR, Smith. Yellow Water-Li ly 



Sepals 5-6, obovatc, yellow. Petals 10-20, stamen-Iikc, hypogynous. Sta- 

 mens numerous, at length recurved, persistent. Ovary cylindrical, many-celled. 

 Stigma sessile, circular. Bcny oblong. Seeds smooth, without arils. — Leaves 

 cordate or sagittate, floating or erect. Flowers yellow, erect 



1 N. advena, Alt. (Bonnets. SrATTERDOCK.) 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. sagittsefolia, 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. June- August. — Leaves 1° long, 2' wide. 



Order 9. SARRACENIACEiE. (Pitcher-Plant Family.) 



Perennial marsh herbs, with hollow pitcher or trunipot-shaped leaves, 

 and a nalccd or bractcd 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-celU'(l, many-ovuled. Placentic central. Style single, 5-clcft, or 

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

 base of fleshy albumen. 



■ 1. SARHACSNIA, L. Trumpet-leaf. Side-Saddle Flower. 



Calyx 3-br.acted. Petals obovatc, drooping or incurved. Stylo umbrella- 

 shaped, 5-angled ; the angles emarginate, and bearing the minute hooked stig- 

 mas beneath. Capsule globose, rough, loculicidally 5-valved. — Scape bractless, 

 l-(lowcrcd. Flowers large, pur])lc or yellow. Leaves 1-wiugcd, hairy within, 

 and usually containing water and dead insects. 



* Flowers purj^h. 



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

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

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

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



2. S. Psittacina, .Miehx. (PARROT-nEAKKn Pitcher-Plant.) Leaves 

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

 reticulated witli purple veins ; lamina globose, inflated, incurved-beaked, almost 

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

 Ajiril and May. — Leaves 2' -4' long. Scajjcs 1° higii. 



