SARRACENIACEJS. (PITOHER-FLANTS.) 23 



I. N. odorata, Ait. (SWEET-SCENTED WATER-LILY.) Leave* orbic- 

 ular, sometimes almost kidney-shaped, cordate-cleft at the base to the petiole, 

 the margin entire ; flower white, fragrant ; petals obtuse ; anthers blunt. Va- 

 ries occasionally with the flowers rose-color. Ponds, common ; the trunks im- 

 bedded in the mud at the bottom, often as large as a man's arm. June - Sept. 



Flower closing in the afternoon. 



2 WUPHAR, Smith. YELLOW POND-LILT. SPATTER-D JCK. 



Sepals 5 or 6, partly colored, roundish. Petals numerous, small and glandu- 

 lar, inserted with the stamens into an enlargement of the receptacle under the 

 ovary, shorter than the circular and sessile many-rayed peltate stigma. Fruit 

 ovoid, naked. Aril none. Flowers yellow. Leaves roundish, sagittate-cor- 

 date. (Name from Neufar, the Arabic name for the Pond-Lily.) 



1. N. lid veil a, Ait. Leaves floating, or oftener emersed and erect, on 

 stout half-cylindrical petioles ; sepals mostly 6, very unequal ; petals narrowly 

 oblong, very thick and fleshy, truncate, resembling the very numerous stamens 

 and shorter than they; anthers much longer than the filaments ; stigma 12-24- 

 rayed ; the margin entire or repand ; fruit strongly furrowed, ovoid-oblong, trun- 

 cate, its summit not contracted into a beak. In still or stagnant water ; com- 

 mon. May -Sept. Leaves 8' -12' long, thick, rounded or oblong-ovate in 

 outline. Flower 2' broad. 



2. N. Italiiiiaiia, Pursh. Leaves floating, on slender or filiform peti- 

 oles ; sepals 5 ; petals spatulate, as long as the moderately numerous stamens ; 

 anthers shorter than the filaments ; stigma 8-14-rayed, the margin crenate ; fruit 

 not furrowed, ovoid-globose, contracted under the stigma into a narrow and angled 

 beak. (N. lutea, var. Kalmiana, Torr. # Gray, and ed. 1. N. intermedium, 

 Ledeb. ?) Ponds, &c., New England, New York, and northward. July, Aug. 



Leaves l'-4' long, roundish, the veins beneath much fewer and more 

 branched than in the last. Flower 1' - 1 broad. (Eu. 1) 



N. LtiTEA, Smith, I have not seen anywhere in the United States. 



ORDER 9. SARRACENIACE^E. (PITCHER-PLANTS.) 



Polyandrous and Jiypogynous bog-plants, with hollow pitcher-form or trum- 

 pet-shaped leaves, comprising one plant in the mountains of Guiana, an- 

 other (Darlingtonia, Torr.') in those of California, and the following genus 

 in the Atlantic United States 



1. SARRACENIA, Tourn. SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. 



Sepals 5, with 3 bractlets at the base, colored, persistent. Petals 5, oblong 

 or obovate, incurved, deciduous. Stamens numerous, hypogynous. Ovary 

 compound, 5-celled, globose, crowned with a short style, which is expanded at 

 the summit into a very broad and petal-like 5-angled, 5-rayed, umbrella-shaped 

 body ; the 5 delicate rays terminating under the angles in as many little hooked 

 itigmag. Capsule with a granular surface, 5-celled, with many-seeded placenta* 



