20 SARRACENIACE^E. (PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY.) 



sinus and obtuse lobes. (N. reniformis, Walt.) Ponds and still water, Florida 

 and northward. May- June. Flowers white, 2'- 4' wide, fragrant, expanding 

 in the morning. Petioles and peduncles occasionally villous. 



2. NUPHAR, Smith. YELLOW WATER-LILY 



Sepals 5-6, obovate, yellow. Petals 10-20, stamen-like, hypogynous. Sta- 

 mens numerous, at length recurved, -persistent. Ovary cylindrical, many-celled. 

 Stigma sessile, circular. Berry oblong. Seeds smooth, without arils Leaves 

 cordate or sagittate, floating or erect. Flowers yellow, erect 



1. "N. advena, Ait. (BONNETS. SPATTER-DOCK.) Leaves thickish, 

 cordate, smooth or downy beneath, often emcrscd and erect, on stout petioles ; 

 sepals 6, the outer ones rounded ; petals numerous, thick and fleshy, truncate. 

 In still water, common, flowering through the summer. 



2. N. sagittsefolia, Pursh. Leaves thin, floating, on slender petioles, ob- 

 long, sagittate, smooth ; lobes at the base expanding ; sepals 6 ; petals trans- 

 formed into stamens. In still water near the coast, Georgia to North Carolina ; 

 rare. Juno- August. Leaves 1 long, 2' wide. 



ORDER 9. SARRACENIACE^E. (PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY.) 



Perennial marsh herbs, with hollow pitcher or trumpet-shaped leaves, 

 and a naked or bracted scape, bearing few or solitary nodding hypogynous 

 flowers. Sepals 5, colored, persistent. Petals 5, imbricated in the bud, 

 deciduous, rarely wanting. Stamens numerous : anthers adnate, introrse. 

 Ovary 5-celled, many-ovuled. Placentae central. Style single, 5-cleft, or 

 umbrella-shaped. Capsule 5-celled, many-seeded. Embryo minute at the 

 base of fleshy albumen. 



1. SARRACENIA, L. TRUMPET-LEAF. SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. 



Calyx 3-bracted. Petals obovate, drooping or incurved. Style umbrella- 

 shaped, 5-angled ; the angles emarginate, and bearing the minute hooked stig- 

 mas beneath. Capsule globose, rough, loculicidally 5-valved. Scape bractless, 

 1 -flowered. Flowers large, purple or yellow. Leaves 1 -winged, hairy within, 

 and usually containing water and dead insects. 



* Flowers purple. 



1. S. purpurea, L. (HUNTSMAN'S CUP.) Leaves short, spreading, the 

 tube inflated, contracted at the throat, broadly winged ; lamina reniform, erect, 

 hairy within, often purple-veined. Mossy swamps, Florida and northward. 

 April and May. Leaves 4' - 6' long. Scapes 1 high. 



2. S. Psittacina, Michx. (PARROT-BEAKED PITCHER-PLANT.) Leaves 

 short, spreading ; tube slender, broadly winged, marked with white spots, and 

 reticulated with purple veins ; lamina globose, inflated, incurved-beaked, almost 

 closing the orifice of the tube. Pine barren swamps, Florida and Georgia. 

 April and May. Leaves 2' - 4' long. Scapes 1 high. 



