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N. renif6rmis, DC. (or N. TUBER6sAJ). Flower nearly scentless 

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

 proportionately broader and blunter ; leaves 8'-15' wide ; seeds almost 

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

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

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



* * Flowers colored; exotic or southern. 



N. stef/ata, Willd. (or N. CCERULEA), 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. ZANZIBARENSIS of gardens is a form of this, with intense blue 

 flowers, and free blooming habit. 



N. Ldtus, Linn. EGYPTIAN LOTUS, an Old World tropical species, has 

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

 serrate leaves which are pubescent below. N. RUBRA and N. DEVONIEN- 

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

 as N. STURTEviNTii originated. 



N. flava, Leitn. YELLOW W". Leaves broadly oval with, wavy margins, 

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

 sub-acute. Florida. 



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

 bic name ?) Kootstock, etc., as in Nymphsea ; leaves often rising out 

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

 tinged, produced all summer ; fruit ripening above water. 



N. ddveiia, 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 

 (6 ; -12' long) rounded or ovate-oblong. 



Var. minus, Morong, has smaller leaves (3'-8' long), spatulate petals, 

 stigmas 9-1 3- rayed ; fruit contracted above. Probably a hybrid between 

 this species and the next. N. Vt. to Mich, and Pa. 



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

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

 7-10-rayed ; fruit with a short neck. Me. to Penn., Minn., and N. 



N. sagittifdlium, Pursh. ARROW -LEAVED N. Leaves sagittate, nar- 

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

 their earlier leaves under water and very thin. S. Ind. and 111. and S. E. 



VH SAERACENIACRffi, PITCHER PLANT FAMILY. 



Bog plants with hollow pitcher-form or trumpet-shaped 

 leaves ; flowers with numerous hypogynous stamens. Only 1 

 genus in the E. U. S. 1J. There are many hybrids of the fol- 

 lowing species in cult. : 



1. SARRACENIA. (For Dr. Sarrasin of Quebec.) SIDESADDLE 

 FLOWER. Leaves yellowish green or purplish, all radical from a 

 perennial root, winged down 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 summer ; sepals 5, with 3 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.) 



