l)„rUiniio„i„. SAKRACKNIACKJv yj 



2. NUPHAR, Smith. Ykm.ow I'oni.-I.ii.v. 



Sopala T) to 12, thick, nmudish, persistent, fr(!<>, colored (gciionilly yellow) witliiu, 

 partly green outside. Petals and stamens short and numerous, hypogynous, densely 

 crowded around the ovary, at length recurving, persistent ; tlie former sometimes 

 resembling sterile stamens, sometimes more dilated and conspicuous, but always 

 small. Filament very short : anther truncate at apex, the two linear cells adnate, 

 introrse. Ovary oblong or ovale, 8 - ^O-ceJled, Hh truncato top occupijid by tho 

 8 - 2()-vadiatc stigma, ripening (usually above water) into an ovoid or lla-sk-shaped 

 indehiscent fruit with a firm rinil and a fleshy or pulpy interior; the cells many- 

 seeded. IS'o arillus to the oval .seeds. — Herbs of shallow waters (4 or 5 species of 

 the northern touiperato zone), sending up largo and mostly rather leathery cordate 

 leaves (eitiier upright or floating) and stout I-flowercd peduncles from a long and 

 thick trunk-like creeping rootstock in tlie mud beneath : flowering all summer. 



1. N. polysepalum, Kngelm. Larger than the Atlantic N. adveiia : leaves G 

 to 12 inches long and three fourtlis as wide, rounded above, deeply cordate at base : 

 se})als 8 to 12 : petals 12 to 18, dilated and unlike the stamens, yellow, often tinged 

 with red : fruit globular, 2 inches long or less. — Trans, ^t. Louis Acad. ii. 282. 

 iV. advena, Newberry in Pacif. P. Rep. vi. G7. 



Rare south of Mt. Shnsta, more ahiindant tbciice to Biitisli Cohimbia and east to and beyond 

 the Rocky Mountains. Klamntli Marsh is lialf covered with tlie floating leaves, and the large 

 seeds foiiTi nn imiMutant article of food among the Indians, who collect great quantities for winter 

 use. "The Reel! fiistes like that of Hroom-roin, ami is iippanMitly very nutritious." This 

 Hiiocies has the largest fruit and (lowers of any of the genus, some of liie (lowers Inking f) inches in 

 diameter and borne on scapes 1 or 2 feet high. The leaves aix* (loating if thcro Ikj suflicient water, 

 otherwise erect. 



Ohdkr IV. SARRACENIACE^. 



Pog plants with pitcher-shaped or tubular and hooded leaves, and perfect polyan- 

 drous hypogynous flowers, the persi.stent sepals, petals, and cells of the ovary each 

 .^) (with one e.xception). Pruit a niany-aeedcd cap.sule. Embryo small in fleshy 

 albumen. — Represented in the, Atlantic United State-s by .sevei-al species of Sarra- 

 ctiiia, in the mountains of Guiana by the little-known apetalous Ileliamphora, in 

 California by the ytnruliar genus, 



1. DARLINGTONIA, Torr. 

 Calyx without bmcts, of 5 imbricated narrowly oblong sepals, persistent. Petals 

 n, ovate-oblong, erect, M'ith a small ovate tip answering to tlie l)lade, and a larger 

 oblong lower portion answering to the claw. Stamens 12 to 15 in a .single row : 

 filaments subulate: anthere oblong, of two uneipial cells, turned cdgcwi.se by a 

 twisting of the filament, so that the smaller cell faces fhe ovary. Ovary somewhat 

 top-shaped, the broad summit being truncato or concjxvo and abruptly dilated, 

 higher than the .'^tamens, 5-celled ; the cells opposite the petals : sfylo short, 5- 

 lobcd ; the lobes short-linear or club-shaped, i-eciirving : stignnvs thirkish, intmrselv 

 terminal, ('apsiilo locnlicidally fi-valved. Seeds very numerous, nlM)vnt/'-cIavate, 

 thickly beset with soft slender pnijertions. — A single sppcie.<«. 



1. D. Califomica, Torr. .\ ]>erennial herb, of ^'n-enish yellow line, with long 

 and rither slender liorj^ont.il rootstocks clothed with (ho b.n.ses of idder dec,ave<l 



