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P L A T E CCCXXXIII.
S A G I T T A R I A LANCIFOLIA.
Lmice-leaved Arrowhead.
C L A S S XXL ORDER VIL
MO^CECIA POLYANDRIA. Ch i v e s nnd Pointals feparate. Many Chives.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
* Masculi flores plures.
CALYX. Perianthium triphyllum; foliolis ovatis,
concavis, perfiilentibus.
CoKOLLA. Pelala tria, fubrotunda, obtufa, plana,
patientia, calyci triplo majora. '
STAMINA. Fiìanienta plurima (vigiliti quatuor
feepe), fubulata^, in capitulum congefla.
Autherìe ereQae, longitudine calycis.
* Feminei flores pauciores, infra raafculos.
CALYX. Perianthium ut in mare.
C O R O L L A . Pelala tria, ut in mare.
PisTiLLA. Germina numerofa^, compreffa, in
capitulum congeib, cxtrorfum gibba, delinentia
in flylos breviflimos. Stigmata acuta,
perfiftentia.
P E K I C A K P I UM nnllum. Receptaculum globofum,
femina in globum colligens.
SEMIN A numerofa, oblonga, comprefla, cin6la
lotigitudinaliter margine membranaceo,
latOj bine gibbo, utrinque acuminato.
* Male flowers many.
EMP.ALEMENT. Cup three leaves j leaflets egg.
fliaped, concave, remaining.
BLOSSOM. Three petals, roundifli, blunt, flat
ipreadmg, three times the iize of the cup
C H I V E S Threads many (often twenty-four),
awl-fliaped, collefted into a little head. Tips
upright, the length of the cup.
* Female flowers fewer, beneath the males.
EMPALEMENT. Cup as in the male.
ELOSSOM. Three petals, as in the male.
PoiNTALs. Seed-buds numerous, flattened, forming
a little head, hunched on the outerfide
ending m very fliort ftiafts. Summits pointed,
remaining.
SEED-VESSEL none. Receptacle globular, fupporting
the feeds in the form of a globe.
SEEDS numerous, oblong, flattened, furrçunded
lengthways by a broad ikinny border
hunched on one fide, tapering to each end
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Sagittaria foliis lanceola to-ovati s. Arrowhead with leaves between lance and eo-?-
ihaped. '>
REFERENCE TO THE PiATE.
1. The whole plant in miniature.
2. A male flower divefted of the petals.
3. One of the Chives, magnilied.
4. A female flower without its petals.
5. The receptacle with its pointals, cut perpendicularly, magnified.
ALL the fpecies of this Genus of plants are aquatic, or water plants, and difl-er but little from eich
other, in their fpecific charaaers. Our prefent fubjeft is a n a L e of the Weft India i L r T n ^ r e
q u . e s the atmofphere of a hot-houfe to induce it to flower. The blofl-oms, on the low r p t t of tl^
flower-ftem, are all feniales; and thofe on the upper part, males; they are all exceedin.rlV deLt e
as euher wind, or wet, deftroys them. It increafes by ofi^sets f rom the root; but the feeds do no rtpen
in h s country. It muft be kept m a pan or tub half filled with earth, and the other half with wa?er
but does not require to be plunged in the tan-bed. , ^
_ Our figure was taken from a plant which flowered this year 1803 (and, for the firft time in Bri
K e n f i n g l o V G o r f " ^ Colleaion of J . Vere, Efq .
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