20 SAUUACLNlAChvE. ( PITCHES-PLANT FAMILY.) 



.-inns 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 5-0, ohovatc, yellow. Petals 10-20, stamcn-likc, hypogynous. Sta- 

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

 Stigma sessile, circular. Berry ohlong. Seeds smooth, without arils — Leaves 

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



I- N. advena, Ait. (Bonnets. Spatter-dock.) Leaves thickish, 

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

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

 In still water, common, flowering through the summer. 



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

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

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

 rare. June- 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, introrsc. 

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

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

 base of fleshy albumen. 



1. SARRACENIA, L. Trumpet-leap. Side-Saddle Flower. 



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

 shaped, 5-angled ; the angles cmarginate, and hearing the minute hooked stig- 

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

 1 -flowered. Flowers large, purple or yellow. Leaves 1-wingcd, 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 rcniform, erect, 

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

 April and May — Leaves 4'-G' long. Scapes 1° high. 



2. S. Psittacina, Michx. (ParrOT-BBAKED 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. 



