An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . horizontally. 5. S. heterophylla, Pursh. (Fig. 4, pi. 7.) Sessile-fruited Arrow-head. ((S. riijiila, Pursh.) Plant from | to 2 ft. high. Leaves variable,from broad linear, almost grass-like, to lance-shaped or elliptic or ovate,about as high as flower stalk. Pistillate (lower) flowers with very shortpedicel (sessile), staminate flowers above, on long pedicels. Fruit withan upright beak \ length of the fruit itself. C.
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . horizontally. 5. S. heterophylla, Pursh. (Fig. 4, pi. 7.) Sessile-fruited Arrow-head. ((S. riijiila, Pursh.) Plant from | to 2 ft. high. Leaves variable,from broad linear, almost grass-like, to lance-shaped or elliptic or ovate,about as high as flower stalk. Pistillate (lower) flowers with very shortpedicel (sessile), staminate flowers above, on long pedicels. Fruit withan upright beak \ length of the fruit itself. C. S. graminea, Michx. Gbass-leaved Sagittaria. Leaves linear,lance-shaped or elliptic. The pistillate flowers on pedicels as long as orlonger than those of the upper staminate llowers. Ponds, our area. 7. S. Eatoni, J. E. Smith. Eatons Sagittaria. Aquatic with leaves or rarely with these leaf-stems exi)an(ling to a linearlance-shaped blade. Flower stem 4 to 8 in. high, weak, bearing 1, 2 orrarely 3 whorls of flowers. Lowest whorl with 2 fertile and 1 staminateflower, Pedicel? of fertile flowers about * in. long. In new edition of WATER PLANTAIN FAMILY 107. Plate 71. Sagittaria longirostra. 2. S. arifolia. 3. S. latifolia. 4. S. hetero-phylla. 5. Alisma Plantago-aquatica. U. Enlarged flower of A. Plantago-aquatica. 108 VALLISNERIACEAE Gray regarded as a form of 8. graminea. On sandy shores between highand low tide, Newburyport, Mass. 8. S. teres, S. Watts. Slender Sagittaria. Leaves reduced to shortrounded leaf stalks without blades or bracts. Flower stalk slender ^ toli ft. high; few flowered. Ponds, Mass. and southward. 9. S. subulata, (L.) Buchenare. Subulate Sagittaela. Leavessimply leaf stalks or with narrow lanceolate blades. Flower stalk veryslender 1/6 to J ft. high. Bracts below flower whorls united to theirextremities or nearly so. Conn., southward. Family V.—VALLISNERIACEAE. Tape-grass FamilySubmersed aquatic herbs, with regular flowers which termina
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