SAGITTA'RIA LATIFO'LIA. 
BROAD-LEAVED ARROWHEAD. 
Class. Order. 
MONtECIA. POLYANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
ALISMACE-ffi. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
1| feet. 
July, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1816. 
No. 546. 
The name, Sagittaria, is deduced from the Latin 
Sagitta, an arrow ; the application of which will be 
evident on inspection of the shape of its leaves. 
If it were not that aquatics have yet to claim their 
due portion of attention from the flower-loving pub- 
lic, we should be surprised that the Sagittaria lati- 
folia, has not been, long ago, figured and published ; 
and also met with in every aquarium or garden 
pond, of the least pretension to respectability. On 
the contrary, although so desirable an ornament, it 
is scarcely known in Great Britain. 
The double variety of this plant, from which our 
drawing was made, grew in the aquarium of the 
Birmingham Botanic Garden. Here it lifted its ar- 
row-headed leaves, and delicate double white blos- 
soms above the surface of the water, and could be 
easily imagined to court observation, whilst it defied 
spoliation. 
This aquatic should be planted from six to eigh- 
teen inches beneath the surface of the water, in a 
rather strong loam. Here it will spread its tubers 
around ; and by a division of these, it may be read- 
ily increased. 
