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2. Leaves and flowers from rootstocks like the last. Sepals 5 or 6, 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-Liiy. 
3. 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, ( Bras'enia ) Watershield. 
4. Sepals and petals (alike in many ranks) and stamens many, all falling 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. ( Nelumbium ) Nelumbo. 
SIDESADDLE-FLOWER FAMILY. Order SARRACENIACEAS. 
Bog-plants with hollow, pitcher-shaped or trumpet-shaped leaves, all from the root, 
making the curious genus 
Sidesaddle-Flower. Sarracenia. 
Sepals 6, 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 6-angled 
umbrella-shaped top, covering the 5-celled ovary and the stamens. 
Pod many-seeded. Flower single, large, nodding on the summit 
of a long scape. 
1. Purple Sidesaddle-Flower, or Pitcher-Plant. Petals 
deep purple, arched over the pistil ; leaves pitcher -shaped, 
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. S. varwlaris. 
4. 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, sif a wing hardly any. 
Very common S. S. flava. 
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