GENUS i. 



MIGNONETTE FAMILY. 



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3. Reseda alba L. White Cut-leaved 

 Mignonette. Fig. 2122. 



Reseda alba L. Sp. PI. 449. 1753. 



Erect, glabrous, somewhat glaucous, i-3 

 high. Leaves often crowded, pinnate or deeply 

 pinnatifid, the segments 9-12, linear, linear- 

 oblong or lanceolate, obtusish, entire or undu- 

 late, 4"-! 2" long; flowers nearly white, 2"-3" 

 broad, in dense spike-like racemes ; pedicels 

 short; petals 6 or 5, all 3-cleft at the summit; 

 sepals of the same number; stamens 12-15; 

 capsule ovoid-oblong, usually 4-toothed, 5"-6" 

 long. 



In waste places, Connecticut to Pennsylvania 

 and Ohio, in ballast about the eastern seaports 

 and in British Columbia. Adventive from south- 

 ern Europe. July-Aug. 



Family 41. SARRACENIACEAE La Pyl. Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris 6 : 379. 1827. 



PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY. 



Marsh herbs, with basal tubular or pitcher-shaped leaves, and large scapose 

 nodding solitary flowers. Sepals 4 or 5, hypogynous, imbricated, persistent. 

 Petals 5, imbricated, hypogynous, deciduous or none. Stamens oo , hypogynous ; 

 anthers versatile. Ovary i, 3-5-celled ; ovules oo, in many rows. Capsule 

 3-5-celled, loculicidally dehiscent; style terminal, peltate, lobed, or in one genus 

 simple. Seeds small, the testa reticulated ; embryo small ; endosperm fleshy. 



Three genera and about 10 species, all natives of America. Besides the following genus, Chrys- 

 amphora of California and Heliamphora of Venezuela are the only known members of the family. 



i. SARRACENIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 510. 1753. 



Leaves hollow, pitcher-form or trumpet-shaped, with a lateral wing and a terminal lid 

 or lamina. Sepals 5, with 3 or 4. bracts at the base. Petals 5, ovate or oblong. Ovary 

 5-celled. Style dilated at the apex into a peltate. umbrella-like structure with 5 rays which 

 terminate under its angles in hooked stigmas. Capsule 5-celled, granular, rugose. Seeds 

 numerous, anatropous. [Named in honor of Dr. Jean Antoine Sarracin, a botanist of 

 Quebec.] 



About 8 species natives of eastern and southeastern North America. Type species : Sarracenia 

 purpurea L. 



Leaves pitcher-shaped, curved; flower purple or greenish (rarely yellow). 

 Leaves tubular-trumpet-shaped ; flower yellow. 



1. 5". purpurea. 



2. S. flava. 



