Genus i. 



MIGNONETTE FAMILY. 



20I 



3. Reseda alba L. 



]\Iie:nonette. 



White Cut-leaved 

 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 g-12, linear, linear- 

 oblong or lanceolate, obtusish, entire or undu- 

 late, 4"-i2" long; flowers nearly white, 2"-^" 

 broad, in dense spike-like racemes; pedicels 

 short; petals 6 or 5, all 3-cIeft 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 Fa Pyl. Mem. .^oc. T.inn. Paris 6: 379. 1827. 



Pitcher-Plant Family. 



]\'Iarsh 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 cc , hypogynous ; 

 anthers versatile. Ovary I, 3-5-celled ; ovules 00, in many rows. Capsule 

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

 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. ?p. 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 S, ovate or oblong. Ovary 

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

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

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

 Quebec] 



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

 purpurea L. 



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



Leaves tubular-trumpet-shaped ; flower yellow. 2. i". flava. 



