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1. N. odorata, Ait. (SWEET-SCENTED WATER-LILY.) Leaves orbic- 

 nlar, 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-coior. Ponds, common; the trunks im- 

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



Flower closing hi the afternoon. 



2. NIJPIIAR, Smith. YELLOW POND-LILT. SPATTER-DOCK. 



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 

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

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



1. N. lid vena, 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 tlian the JUaments ; 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. Kalmiaiia, 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, 

 Ledfb. ?) 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. ?) 



N. LtJTEA, Smith, I have not seen anywhere hi the United States. 



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



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

 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 

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



