POLYANDRIA MONAGYNIA. 
petalis nullis, antheris 
subsessilibus. 
ed; petals 0 ; anthers 
nearly sessile* 
Pursh. 2. p. 370. 
Nymphaea sagittifojia. Walt. 155. 
Nymphaea longifolia. Mich. 1. p. 312 ? 
Leaves floating, oblong, 6 — 8 inches long, 2 — 3 wide, sagitate at baae^ 
thinner than usual in this genus and in its kindred genera. Pericarp ra^ 
ther small, ovate. Stigma with 14 rays, margin entire. 
Grows in the Pee Dee river above the head of tide water. 
To me a rare species. The flowers I have nevej seen. Found with 
mature fruit in the middle of November. 
SARRACENIA. Gen. Pl. 885. 
LS 
Calyx double, per- 
sistent, the exte- 
rior small, 3-leaved, 
the interior 5-leaved, 
Petals 5. Stigma 
very large, 5-angled, 
peltate peristent. 
Capsule 5-celled, 5- 
valved, many seeded. 
Leaves short with 
the tube' ventricose, 
contracted P at _ the 
throat ; longitudinal 
wing very large, arch- 
ed ; appendix erect, 
reniform; flowers pur- 
ple* 
Sp. pl. 2. p. 1150. Walt. p. 152. Mich. 1. p. 310. Pursh. 2. p. 367" * 
Root perennial. Leaves as in all of the species springing from the 
root, 4 — 6 inches high, hollow, tubular, bulging in the middle, contracted 
at the throat, the appendage large, reniform, emarginate very hairy on 
the inner surface. Scape about a foot high, bearing a solitary terminal flow- 
«r 3 exterior Calyx very small; the interior large and coloured; (purple.) 
VOL. IL B 
Calyx duplex per- 
sistens exterior mi- 
nor, 3-phyllus, inte- 
rior 5-phyllus* Pe- 
tala 5. Stigma max- 
imum pentagonum, 
clypeatum persistens. 
Capsula 5-locularis, 
5 -valvis, polysperma. 
i 1. Purpurea. 
• S. foliis brevibus, 
tubo ventricoso, fauce 
coarctato ; ala ven- 
trali amplissima, arcu- 
ata; appendice erec- 
ta, reniformi 5 flore 
purpureo. 
