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NYMPHJEACEJ2. (water-lily family.) 
ed in a sac-like aril. — Flowers white (rose-color or blue), very 
showy. (Dedicated by the Greeks to the Water-Nymphs.) 
1. odorata, Ait. (Sweet-scented Water-Lily.) Leaves 
orbicular, sometimes almost kidney-shaped, cordate-cleft at the bas 
to the petiole, the margin entire; stigmas 16 - 30, incurved : flow* 
white, fragrant. — Varies with the flowers rose-color. — Ponds, coo* 
mon in deep water; the trunks imbedded in the mud at the bottom 
often as large as a man’s arm. July - Sept. 
2, 1VUPHAR, Smith. Yellow Pond-Lily. 
Sepals 5 or 6, partly colored, roundish. Petals numerous, 
small and stamen-like, compactly inserted with the stamens into an 
enlargement of the receptacle at the base of the ovary , shorter 
than the circular flat-topped and radiate sessile compound stigtna- 
Fruit ovoid, naked. Aril none. — Flowers yellow. (Name 
Neufar, the Arabic name for the Pond-Lily.) 
1- NT* ad vena. Ait. Leaves erect or floating on half-cyL nur 
cal petioles, heart-shaped at base, oblong or rounded ; sepals 6 ; 
furrowed. Ponds and ditches, mostly in shallow water; flowed 
all summer. Also called Spatter-dock. 
tea, Smith. Leaves floating, on triangular or roun' ' 
petioles; sepals 5 ; fruit not furrowed ; stigma 16 - 20 -rayed. - '* r 
Kalmiana is smaller in all its parts; stigma 8-14-rayed. — 
common northward. 
Order 9. SARRACEKIACEJ3. (Pitcher-pi^ 5, 
Bog-plants t cilh hollow pitcher-form or trutnpet-sW^ 
radical leaves, and an umbrella-shaped petal-like *4“ 
characters those of the typical genus. 
** SARK ACfetfIA, Tourn. Sidesaddle-flows** 
als 5 P “w 5 ’ WUh \ braCt ' etS at the base > sloped, persistent. P* 
m ,„ \° ° n " or obova,e > incurved, deciduous. Stamens numen 
with a y ^ n ° US ; ° VWy com P° und > 5-celled, globose, crowns 
ant 1 * S’ Which b at the summit into a very 
5 delicate ravs ^ 5 ' aDgled 5 ' ra y ed umbrella-shaped body; * be 
Lt'n t Z. T ” ,h * % 
the persisJTstyJe T~Ld surface - *****?! 
y > lied, with many-seeded placentas in ^ 
