. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. SAGITTARIA SAINTPAULIA 1597 regions. Blost of the species htive arrow-shaped leaves, whence the name. They are useful for foliage effects in bogs and shallow ponds, and also for their white buttercup-like flowers, which are borne in successive small whorls on an erect scape. They are mostly used for colonizing
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. SAGITTARIA SAINTPAULIA 1597 regions. Blost of the species htive arrow-shaped leaves, whence the name. They are useful for foliage effects in bogs and shallow ponds, and also for their white buttercup-like flowers, which are borne in successive small whorls on an erect scape. They are mostly used for colonizing in the open, but S. Montevidensis —now the most popular species —is grown in indoor aquaria or. 2226. Common Arrowhead—Sagittaria latifolia (X M). Comraonly known as S. variabilis. plunged in open ponds in the summer. The arrowheads are perennials of easy culture, although likely to be infested with aphis. Prop, by division, or sometimes by seeds. Plants of mostly erect habit, the Ivs. and scapes aris- ing from more or less tuberous or knotted rootstocks: Its. typically arrow-shaped, with long basal lobes, but sometimes long and linear: fls. imperfect, monoecious (staminate fls. usually in the uppermost whorls) or di- oecious, with 3 white broad petals and 3 small greenish sepals, the stamens and pistils numerous, the latter ripening into small akenes: inflorescence composed of successive whorls of 3-stalked fls. Sometimes the Ivs. are floating. A. Sepals of pistillate fls. {itsually in the loiver ivJiorls) erect after flowerivg, and the pedicels of these fls, thick: carpels not glandular. Montevid^nsiSt Cham. & Schlecht. Giant Arrow- head. Very large, sometimes growing G ft. tall, with leaf-blades 1-2 ft. long: Ivs. arrow-shaped, with long, diverging, sharp basal lobes: fls. very large (2 to nearly 3 in. across), the rounded petals white with a purple blotch at the base. Argentina to Brazil. Chile and Peru. 6755. Gn. 27:473. 31 known as a cult, p
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