PITCHER PLANT FAMILY. 53 



N. renif6rmis, !)(.'. (or N. rrBERusA). Flower nearly scentless 

 (its faint odor like that of apples), pure white, 4'-9' in diameter; i^etals 

 proportionately broader and blunter ; leaves S'-lo' wide ; seeds almost 

 globular; rootstock bearing copious tubers like "artichokes," attached 

 by a narrow neck and spontaneously separating. W. X. Y. and Penn., 

 Alich. and W., probably also in S. States. 



* * Floioers colored ; exotic nr southern. 



N. stallata, Willd. (or N. C(ei{ulea), Blue W., cult, in aquaria; a ten- 

 der species, with crenate-toothed leaves, and blue or bluish sweet-scented 

 flowers, the petals few, narrow, and acute. Trop. Africa, India, etc. 



N. Zanzibarexsis of gardens is a form of this, with intense blue 

 flowers, and free blooming habit. 



N. Lotus, Linn. Egyptian Lotus, an Old AVorld tropical species, has 

 large red or whitish flowers, with red-margined sepals, and peltate, sharply 

 serrate leaves which are pubescent below. N. kuhra and N. Devonien- 

 sis are forms of it ; and from the latter garden form the variety known 

 as N. Sturtevantii originated. 



N. fl^va, Leitn. Yeli,o\v W. Leaves broadly oval with wavj' margins, 

 the lobes at base of notch not pointed ; flowers bright, liglit yellow ; petals 

 sub-acute. Florida. 



5. NUPHAR, YELLOW POND LILY, SPATTER-DOCK. (Ara- 

 bic name ?) Rootstock, etc., as in Nymphfea ; leaves often rising out 

 of water ; flowers by no means showy, yellow, sometimes purplish- 

 tinged, produced all summer; fruit ripening above water. 

 N. ddvena, Ait.f. Sepals 6 or more, unequal ; petals truncate, 

 shorter than the stamens and resembling them ; stigma 12-24-rayed ; 

 ovary and fruit not contracted above into a neck ; the thickish leaves 

 ((r-i2' long) rouuded or ovate-oblong. 



Var. minus, Morong, has smaller leaves (o'-8' long), spatulate petals, 

 stigmas !»-lo-rayed ; fruit contracted above. Probably a hybrid between 

 this species and the next. N. \^t. to Mich, and Pa. 



N. Kalmidnum, Ait., has the floating leaves only 2 '-4' long, submersed 

 leaves thin, round, kidney-shaped ; petals spatulate or obovate ; stigmas 

 7-l()-rayeil ; fruit with a short neck. Me. to Penn., Minn., and N. 



N. sagittif6lium, Pursh. Arrow-leaved N. Leaves sagittate, nar- 

 rowly oblonii; to oblanceolate, obtuse (1° by 2'). This and the last produce 

 their earlier leaves underwater and very thin. S. Ind. and 111. and S. E. 



VII. SARRACENIACEiE, PITCHER PLANT FAMILY. 



Bog ])luiit-; with hollow pitcher-form or trumpet-shaped 

 leaves; flowers with numerous hypogynous stamens. Only 1 

 genns in the E. T'. S. 2t There are many liybi'ids of the fol- 

 lowing species in cult. : — 



1. SARRACENIA. (For !>)•. ^«)T«im of Quebec.) SIDESADDLE 

 FLOWER. Leaves yellowish gi-een or purplish, all radical from a 

 lierenuial root, winged doAvn the inner side, open at the top, where there 

 is a sort of arching blade or hood ; scape tall, naked, bearing a single, 

 large, nodding flower in early sunnner ; sepals 5, with '} bractlets at the 

 base, colored, persistent ; petals 5 ; style with an umbrella-shaped, 5- 

 angled top. a hooked stigma under each angle ; ovary 5-celled ; pods 

 many-seeded, rough-warty. (Lessons. Fig. 174.) 



