POPULAR FLORA. 



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2. Leaves and flowers from rootstocks like the last. Sepals 5 or 8, rounded, partly petal- 

 like and yellow. Within these a mass of small, square-topped bodies looking like 

 and not much larger than the stamens, but really answering to petals ; and above 

 them the real stamens in great numbers, all under the many-celled and flat-topped 

 pistil, {Nuphar) Yellow Pond-Liu 



S. Leaves and small dull-purple flowers from a slender stem rising in the water ; the oval 

 leaves attached by the middle of the under side (centrally peltate). Sepals and 

 petals narrow, each 4, and 12 to 18 stamens, all under the 4 to 16 separate and 

 few-seeded pistils, {Brasenia) Watershield. 



4. Sepals and petals (alike in many ranks) and stamens many, all faUing off early, all un- 

 der the pistils, which are 12 or more in number and separately embedded in the flat 

 upper face of an enlarged top-shaped receptacle. In fruit they are round and eat- 

 able nuts (Fig. 273). Leaves very large (1° or 2° broad), round, attached by the 

 middle underneath, cupped, rising out of the water, as do the great greenish- 

 yellow flowers also, on long stalks. Common W. & S. {Nelumbimn) Nelumbo. 



7. SIDESADDLE-FLOWEB FAMILY. Order SARRACENIACE^. 



Bog-plants with hollow, pitcher-shaped or trumpet-shaped leaves, all from the root, 

 making the curious genus 



Sidesaddle-Flower. Sarrac'enia. 



Sepals 5, colored, persistent; and below the calyx are 3 small 

 bractlets. Petals 6, fiddle-shaped, curved inwards. Stamens 

 very many, on the receptacle. Style with a broad and 5-angled 

 umbrella-shaped top, covering the 5-oelled ovary and the stamens. 

 Pod many-seeded. Flower single, large, nodding on the summit 

 of a long scape. 



1. Purple Sidesaddle-Flower, or Pitchek-Plant. Petals 



deep purple, arched over the pistil ; leaves pitcher-ehaped, 

 yellowish-green, veined with purple, and with a broad wing 

 down the inner side. Common N. & S. 8. purpurea. 



2. Red S. Petals red; leaves long, trumpet-shaped, with a nar- 



row side wing. S. S, rubra. 



3. Spotted S. Petals yellow ; leaves trumpet-shaped, 12' to 



18' long, with a hooded top spotted with white on the back, 

 and a narrow side wing. S. 5. variolaris. 



i. Yellow S., or Trumpets. Petals yellow, drooping when 

 old; leaves 1° to 3° long, trumpet-shaped, with an upright 

 rounded top turned back at the sides, si(' a wing hardly any. 

 Very common S. S.ficma. 



Leave! of Purple S. ; one of th«in cut 06. 



