SARRACENIACEAE 581 
I. URPUREAE 
Pitchers fea oman hood erect, reniform, opening outward, 
the orifice terminal. 1. S. purpurea. 
Biden tubular- elata hood globose-cueullate, opening 
ard, the orifice lateral. 2. S. psittacina. 
II. FLAVAE 
Hood flat, green, more or less Meurs with purple: flower 
small, the o less than 4 cm 
ood with m r less reflexed sided, yellow, yellow-green, 
ao Pate. or dark-r s often red- veined ; flower 
arge, the o over 4 cm. long. 
Hoal mottled green and whi ite and purple-veined: petals 
Sa 
S. rubra. 
4. S. Drummondii. 
Hood yellow or yellow-green, or dark-red in a variety of 
S. flava, veinless or red-veined. 
Petals Cee or ao -colored, or dark-red in a va- 
S. 
Ho jod reniform or orbicular-reniform : petals yellow 
or rarely red in isolated colonies. 5. S. flava.. 
ood us sometimes broadly so: petals cream- 
colored. 6. S. Sledgei. 
Petals dark-red. T. S. Jones. 
III. MINORES 
Plant growing in mps and colonies, Mr dk on ac- 
count of the PN tops and backs 'of the leave 8. S. minor. 
1. S. purpurea L. Leaves 1-2 dm. long, evergreen, decumbent, in a basal 
rosette, ob um I purple: pitcher ventricose, with a half- obovate 
or half- dre das e wing, the orifiee not con- 
traeted: hood ereet, re pedi rm, proe otehed 
at the apex: BE erec 2-4 dm. tall: 
flower 5-6 em. broad: exa ovate, about 3 
em. long, obtuse: petals fiddle-shaped, 4—5 
em. long, obtuse, purple: style-disk 3—4 em. 
broad, the lobes notehed: capsule about 1.5 
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.— ER-PLANT. NDIAN 
PIT FLYT SIDESADDLE-PLANT 
ADAM ’S-PITCHER NTSMAN ’S-CU RE- 
FATHER ’S-C DEviL's-BooTS.) — Sphag- 
inces, N Fla. to La., Man. and Newf.— 
Spr. — Hybridizes with S. flava zxS. 
Cates baei; also with S. Drummon Kee The 
representative of this species in our region 
ies from ‘that further north in having much shorter and broader n 
an found on further study to be a distinet species, in which ease it 
should bear the name S. venosa Rafinesqu e. 
2. S. psittacina Michx. iE : a 5 dm. long, evergreen, in a pn rosette, 
is ap especially above, white spots an nd purple veins: piieher 
tubular-clavate, with a broad half. dd p wing: hood strongly aa in- 
flated, ER. ucullate: scape erect, 2—4 4 tall: silvia 3-5 em. ee 
2-2.5 © 
sepals ova ‘long, abet ’ petals 3 —4 dm. long, rounded or retus 
at the pen i uud siyle-disk about 3.5 cm. broad, the D p eleft: "Cae 
—14 m n dia —(PARROT PITCHER-PLANT. )—Lowlands, Coastal Plain, 
N Fla. i La. a a Spr 1. Hybridizes with S. m 
3. S. rubra Walt. Leaves 1—4 dm. long: trumpets nearly tubular or narrowly 
trumpet-shaped, narrowly w inged, pois rus t the throat, slightly paler 
above, and, like the ovate acute or a e finally pi hood, fain 2 pn 
late with purple: seape erect, ict "taller Ee the leaves: 3—5 
broad: sepals ovate, 2-2.5 cm. long, obtuse: petals 3-4 cm. lop. reddish. 
