. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 12. Sagittaria cristata Engelm. Crested Sagittaria. Fig. Sagittaria cristata Engelm.; Arthur, Proc. Davenport Acad. 4: 29. 1882. Monoecious, scape slender, erect, i°-2i° high, simple, bearing 4 or 5 verticils of flowers at or above the sur- face of the water. Leaves long-petioled, spongy and rigid, reduced to slender phyllodia or bearing linear- lanceolat
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 12. Sagittaria cristata Engelm. Crested Sagittaria. Fig. Sagittaria cristata Engelm.; Arthur, Proc. Davenport Acad. 4: 29. 1882. Monoecious, scape slender, erect, i°-2i° high, simple, bearing 4 or 5 verticils of flowers at or above the sur- face of the water. Leaves long-petioled, spongy and rigid, reduced to slender phyllodia or bearing linear- lanceolate or elliptic blades 2'-4' long and 3"-i2" wide; bracts acute, 2"-4" long, much shorter than the slender fertile pedicels; flowers 8"-io" broad; stamens about 24; filaments dilated, pubescent, at least at the middle, longer than the anthers; achene obliquely obovate, the dorsal margin with a broad crenate wing, the ventral straight-winged, each side bearing 2 crenate crests, the beak short, oblique. In shallow water, Iowa and Minnesota. Phyllodia are commonly developed from the nodes of the rootstock. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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