Sarracema.] SARRACENIE^. 



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the stio^ma, which, besides beings deeper cut in N, Kalmiana at the margins, has fewer rays, and these rays 

 are ^een upon a brown ground. I have represented the pistil of both species in the plate of N, pumila, in • 

 Flora LondinensiSj New Series, 



B. N.advena; calyce 6-sepaIo, peta]is plurimis staminibus brevioribus, pericarpio sul- 

 cato, foliis erectis cordatis. — Ait Hort Kew. ed, 2. v. 3. p. 295. Purshy FL Am. v. 2. p. 369. 

 Be Cand, Prodr. v. 1. p, 116. Bigel FL Bost ed, 2. ;>. 216. Elliott, Carol v, 2. />. 8. 

 Nympha3a ad vena. Ait, Hort Kew, ed, 1. v, 2. p, 226. Mich, Am. r. 1. /?. 31], 



Hab. Throughout Canada, and as far north as English River, lat. 55° to 56°. Dr, Richardson. In 

 hikes and still pools. — Dr. Graham and myself have long observed that the N. advena^ as cultivated in our 

 gardens, has the leaves sometimes floating, sometimes rising above the water. This circumstance depends 

 probably on the vigour of the foliage. Professor Bigelow says, that in northern latitudes, where the roots 

 can only exist in deep water, the leaves float; in southern, where they can live in shallow water, the leaves 

 are always erect. 



Ord. VI. SARRACENIEi^. De la Pylaie, 



Char, Ord. Cat 5-sepalus, persistens; sepalis basi concavis, extus involucro trlpliyllo 

 etiam persistente stipatus. Cor, pentapetala; petalis basi contractis, unguiculatis. 

 Stamina numerosa, hypogyna, arete posita, compacta. Filamenta hrewmscwlvi : Anther<B 

 dorso affix£e, oblongee, biloculares, facie superiore e basi sursum vix ad apicem 

 dehiscentes. Pistillum unicum, sessile: Germew magnum, globosum, longitudinaliter 

 5-sulcatum: Stylus columnaris: Stigma maximum, convexum, foliaceum, peltatum, 

 5-angulatum. Capsula globosa, stylo stigmateque persistente coronata, quinqueloba, 

 quinquelocularis, polysperma, quinquevalvis, valvis loculicidis. Receptaada 5, sin- 

 gulum in singulo loculo, ex axi centrali progrediens: semina numerosissima tecta. 

 Semina parva, minute tuberculata. Albumen copiosum. Embryo ad basin seminis 

 versus, cylindraceus. Radicula ad hilum spectans. 



Herba paludosa. Radix fibrosa. Folia omnia radicalia^ tubulosa, ad apicem ap- 

 pendiculata, appendice svbcassidifijrmi, Scapus uniflorm, Flos niagmis^ nutans, viridi.% 

 fiavus, vel atropurpureus. 



1. SARRACENIA. Linn. 



Character eadem ac Ordinis. 



1. S, purpurea; foliis ascendentibus sursum arcuatis, tubo inflato gibbo, ala latissima, 

 appendice lato-cordata erecta.— Zmw. Sp, PL p, 728. Mich. Am. v. 1. p. 340. Pursli, Fl. 

 Am. V. 2, p, 367. Sims in Bat Mag. t 849. BigeL Fl, Bost ed, 2, p. 2\S. Elliott, Carol, 

 V, 2. p. 10. De la Pylaie in Ann, de la Soc. Linn, v. 6. p. 388. t 13. 



Hab. Swampy places about Quebec. Mrs. Percival. Lake Huron. Vr, Todd. Probably common 

 throughout Canada, and as far north as Bear Lake. Br, Richaidson, Drumntond. NewfoundLmd. Mr. 

 MorHson, M. de la Pylaie. Mr. ConnacA.— This curious plant is too well known, even in the gardens of 

 this country, to need any specific description here. But no one, that I am aware of, has ventured 

 upon referring the genus to its place in the Natural method, except M. de la Pylaie, in the volume of the 

 Actes de la Soc. Linneenne, of Paris, above quoted. It had often been suggested that its nearest allies 

 were the Nymphmacece and the Papaveraceee, in which opinion I quite accord; and hence I have placed the 



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