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E. rostratua, Engelm. Leaves broadly heart-shaped (l'-3' long, not 

 including the petiole), shorter than the erect scape, which bears a panicle 

 of proliferous umbels ; flower almost ' wide ; 12 stamens ; akenes beaked 

 with slender styles. HI., W. and S. 



E. radlcans, Engelm. Leaves broadly heart-shaped and larger (3'-8' 

 wide) , which are very open or almost truncate at base ; the creeping 

 scapes or stems becoming l-4 long and bearing many whorls ; flowers 

 $'-4' broad ; akenes short-beaked. HI., W. and S. ^ ? 



3. SAQITTARIA, ARROWHEAD. (From the Latin for arrow, 

 on account of the sagittate leaves which prevail in the genus.) In 

 shallow water ; flowers all summer. 2 



* Filaments long and slender, i.e. as long as the linear-oblong anthers. 



3. varidbilis, Engelm. The common species everywhere, exceedingly 

 variable; almost all the well- developed leaves arrow-shaped; filaments 

 nearly twice the length of the anthers, smooth ; sepals reflexed after 

 flowering ; akenes broadly obovate, with a long and curved beak ; calyx 

 remaining open. The lobes of the leaves are sometimes very narrow- 

 linear (var. grcicilis, Engelm), and sometimes the petioles, upper part 

 of the scape, the bracts, and sepals are pubescent (var. pubescena, 

 Engelm). Other well-marked forms occur. 



S. Montevidensis, Cham. & Schlecht. From S. Ainer., now frequently 

 grown in aquaria ; distinguished from the above by a deep purple spot at 

 the base of the flower inside, thick pedicels of the pistillate flowers, and 

 sepals erect after flowering. 



B. Iancif6lia, Linn. Common from Md. and Ky., S. ; with the stout 

 leaves l-3 and scapes 2-5 high, the coriaceous blade of the former 

 lance-oblong and always tapering into the thick petiole, the nerves nearly 

 all from the thick and prominent midrib. 



3. calycina, Engelm. Along rivers, often much immersed ; many of 

 the leaves linear or with no blades ; the others mostly halberd-shaped ; 

 scapes weak, 3'-9' high ; pedicels with fruit recurved ; filaments roughish, 

 only as long as the anthers ; akenes obovate, tipped with short horizontal 

 style ; calyx appressed to head of fruit and partly covering it ; the fertile 

 flowers show 9-12 stamens, the sterile occasionally some rudiments of 

 pistils. Me., W. and S. 



* * Filaments very short and broad. 



S. heterophyila, Pursh. Scapes 3'-2 high, weak ; the fertile flowers 

 almost sessile, the sterile long-pediceled ; filaments glandular-pubescent ; 

 akenes narrow-obovate, with a long, erect beak ; leaves linear, lanceolate 

 or lance-oblong, arrow-shaped with narrow lobes or entire. N. Eng., 

 W. and S. 



B. gramlnea, Michx. Common S. ; known from the foregoing by 

 the slender pedicels of both kinds of flowers ; small, almost beakless 

 akenes ; and leaves rarely arrow-shaped ; the phyllodia flat. N. Eng., 

 W. and S. 



B. teres, Watson. N. Eng. to N. J., in shallow water ; scape 6'-20' 

 high; phyllodia terete, acutely attenuate upwards, very rarely with a 

 narrow blade ; pedicels all very slender and spreading, in 1-3 whorls ; 

 filaments 12, dilated and pubescent ; akene obovate, with an erect beak, 

 the margins crenate-crested. 



B. natans, Michx., var. lorata, Chapm. Known by the small size 

 (l'-3' high), few flowers, usually only one of them fertile and recurved 

 in fruit ; stamens only about 7, with glabrous filaments ; akenes obovate, 

 with erect beak ; and leaves without a true blade. N. Y. , S. , near the 

 coast. 



