SAGITTARIA LANCIFOLIA.
Lance-leaved Arrowhead.
CLASS XXI. ORDER VII.
MONŒCIA POLYANDRIA. Chives and Pointals separate. Many Chives.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
* Masculi flores plures.
Calyx. Perianthium triphyllum; foliolis ovatis, concavis, persistentibus.
Corolla. Petala tria, subrotunda, obtusa, plana, patientia, calyci triplo majora.
Stamina. Filamenta plurima (viginti quatuor sæpe), subulata, in capitulum congesta. Antheræ erectæ, longitudine calycis.
* Feminei flores pauciores, infra masculos.