20 SARRACENIACEiE. (riTCIlER-RLANT FAMILY.) 



sinus and obtuse lobes. (N. rcniformis, Walt.) — Ponds and still water, Florida 

 and northward. May -June. — Flowers wliite, 2'- 4' wide, fragrant, expanding 

 in the morning. Petioles and peduncles occasionally villous. 



2. NUPHAE, 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 thickish, 

 cordate, smooth or downy beneath, often cmcrscd 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 trumpet-shaped leaves, 



and a naked or bracted scape, hearing 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. Placentae central. Style single, 5-cleft, or 

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

 base of fleshy albumen. 



1. SARRACENIA, L. Trumpet-leaf. Side-Saddle Flower. 



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

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

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

 1 -flowered. Flowers large, purple or yellow. Leaves 1 -winged, hairy within, 

 and usually containing water and dead insects. 



* Flowers pitrj>le. 



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

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

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

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



2. S. Psittacina, Miehx. (Parbot-deaked Pitcher-Plant.) Leaves 

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

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

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



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



