C 849 ] 



Sarracenia Purpurea. Broad-Lipped 

 Purple Side-Saddle-Flower. 



Clafs and Order, 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. — Vid. N um - 780. 



Specific CharatJer and Synonyms. 



SARRACENIA purpurea ; foliis decumbentibus, fcapo bre- 

 Vioribus : tubo gibbo inflato : ala ventrali 

 latiffima arcuata : appendice fubreniformi 

 margine finuata. 



SARRACENIA purpurea. Linn. Sp. PL 728. Edit. Willd. 

 v. 2. p. 1150. Bart. Elem. tab. 1. 



SARRACENIA purpurea; foliis brevibus tubo ventricofo 

 gibbo, fauce coar&ato ; ala ventrali arcuatim 

 elatiore ; appendice erecta fubreniformi- 

 cordata, mutica, feflili : flore purpureo. Mi- 

 chaux Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 310. 



SARRACENA canadenfis foliis cavis et auritis. Tourn. Injl. 



°57« 

 BUCANEPHYLLON americanum. Pluk. Amalth. 46. /. 376. 

 f.6. 



The Sarracenia purpurea, being a native of Canada, 

 fliould be fufficiently hardy to bear our winters in the open 

 air, but, perhaps from fome error in the treatment, it has 

 feldom been made to flower without artificial heat ; we fhould 

 recommend its being planted in bog earth, in a moift fhady 

 fituation, where the ground is generally covered with mofs. 



There is however another fpecies with purple flowers, the 

 Sarracenia pfittacina of Michaux, which we have leen 

 at Mr. Woodford's, and this being a native of the more 

 fouthern States of North- America, is probably more tender. ^ 



Our drawing was made at Meflrs. Lee and Kennedys, 

 Nurferymen, at Hammerfmith, in the middle of laft March, 

 andwe received a fpecimen in fine flower but imperfeft in its 

 foliage, in April of the preceding year, from Mr. Lod dices. 

 Said in the Hortus Kewenfis to be introduced by Mr. Joh* 

 Tradescant, jun. before the year 1640. 



