10 
purpurea. 
advena, 
POLYANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
244, SARRACENIA. Gen, pl. 885. (Plante incerte sedis.) 
Calix double, exterior smaller 3-leaved, in- 
terior 5-leaved, both persistent. Petals 5, 
deciduous, erect, spreading from about the 
middle. Stigma very large and persist- 
ent, clypeate, covering the stamina, mar- 
gin pentangular. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valv- 
ed, many-seeded, valves septiferous in the 
centre.— Nutt. 
1. S. leaves short, with an inflated gibbous tube, 
the mouth constricted, ventral-wing broad-arcli- 
ed, appendix erect, subreniform, cordate, muti- 
cate, sessile.—.Mich. and Willd. 
Icon. Barton’s Elements of Botany. Bot. 
Mag. 849. Catesby. Car. 2. t. 70. 
Side-saddle Flower. 
A very curious and elegant plant. Leaves hollow, and ven- 
tricose, generally half filled with water and dead insects. 
Flowers reddish purple. The old leaves often purple, and 
conspicuously veined with the samecolour. In the low bogs 
and sphagnous marshes of Jersey, ten miles south-east of Phi- 
ladelphia. In the bogs of the woodlands; very rare. Peren- 
nial. June, July. 
245. NUPHAR. Smith, prodr. fl. grec. 1. p. 361. 
(Hydrocharides.) 
Calix 5 or 6-leaved. Petals many, minute, 
inserted with the stamina upon the recep- 
tacle, externally nectariferous. Stigma 
orbicular, radiated, sessile. Capsule car- 
nose, many-celled, many-seeded, superior. 
—Nutt. : 
1. N. leaves erect, cordate, very entire ; lobes di- 
varicate, calix 6-leaved, stigma slightly umbi- 
licate, 13-radiate, pericarp furrowed.—il, Kew. 
2d. ed. 

