76 77m Flora of ih Adirondaeks. 



Scattered in all parts of the sphagnum the Sarraeenia 

 Purpurea, huntsman's cup, sends up its remarkable hollow 



pitcher-form leaves whose cavities are almost always 

 nearly tilled with water. The verticiles of purple and 

 green pitchers from the centre of which springs the tall, 

 straight, stiff scape, crowned by a single nodding purple 

 and yellow flower, two inches in diameter and as curious 

 in structure as the leaves themselves, make up one of the 

 most singular plants of this state. The variety with yellow 

 flowers observed, I helieve, nowhere else in our state, except 

 in Seneca county, is found here. The Calla Paluslris, the 

 nearest American relative of the stately Egyptian Lily 

 finds a place in the sphagnum ; its broad green leaves 

 and pure white flowers contrasting with the slender 

 grasses with wooly heads growing close by. Floating on 

 the surface of the pond is the Nymphea Odorata or white 

 pond lily, one of the most ornamental plants of the 

 United States, and the yellow pond lily whose strong smell 

 is in unpleasant contrast w T ith the delightful odor of its 

 neighbor. Here, too, by the water's edge is the pickerel 

 weed with its spikes of blue flowers. The round-leafed sun- 

 dew, a curious little plant, with leaves beset with glandular 

 hairs and tipped with a drop of clamny fluid which 

 glistens like dew in the sunlight, would escape our notice 

 did we not search carefully for it. The Uiricttlorio ( Wiiuia 

 sends up its naked slender scape, crowned with two or 

 three handsome yellow flowers, and its minute companion 

 the Utricularia Subulaia, creeps about among the mosses. 



The class of plants which would most fix our attention 

 in this little repository of northern flora but of which we 

 have thus far tailed to speak, belong to the Orchis tribe, 

 a class of plants eminently calculated by their beauty to 

 delight the eye and by the curious and unusual forms of 

 their flowers, to attract especial attention from the 

 botanist. No less than thirteen species of these curious 



