N. ORD.-SARRACENIACE, 419 
GENUS.—SARRACENIA,* TOURN. 
SEX. SYST.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
SARRACENIA, 
PITCHER-PLANT. 
e . SYN.—SARRACENIA PURPUREA, LINN.; SARAZINA GIBBOSA, RAF. 
a ae: eres 
COM. NAMES.—PITCHER-PLANT, HUNTSMAN’S CUP, WATER-CUP, EVE’S 
CUPS, SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER, FLY-CATCHER. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH ROOT OF SARRACENIA PURPUREA, LINN. 
Description.—This peculiar bog perennial is characterized as follows: Roof 
somewhat ligneous, yellowish, furnished with numerous yellowish-brown fibrous 
rootlets; stem none; leaves (ascidia) all radical, pitcher-shaped, and composed of four 
parts: the Jetzo/e about one-third the whole length, slender, dilated at the base and 
somewhat equitant ; /wde ovate, narrowing to the petiole, and longitudinally marked 
with reddish veins; ood auriculate-cordate, wavy, covered in the throat with nu- 
merous stiff, sharp, curved bristles pointing downward ; wing broad, laterally undu- 
late, passing along the median line of the upper surface of the tube, from the base 
of the hood to the petiole. These ascidia, usually six in number, lie dorsally pros- 
trate upon the sphagnum in which the plant usually grows, the open mouths of 
the tubes looking upward toward the nodding flower and forming about the scape.a 
rosette of gaping wells half filled with water, and having a path represented by 
the free margin of the wings leading to each.+ nflorescence a single large reddish 
purple flower, terminal and nodding upon a long smooth and naked scape. Sefa/s 
5, colored, persistent, 3-bracted at their base. Petals 5, obovate or somewhat 
fiddle-shaped, caducous, incurved over the style. S¢amens numerous, hypogynous. 
Ovary globose, 5-celled; style greenish-yellow, composed of a short erect shaft, and 
an umbrella-like expanded extremity consisting of 5 petaloid segments rayed at 
their approximations, each ray ending in a short nipple-like projection, which con- 
stitutes the stigma, yuzt a granular 5-celled and valved capsule ; f/acente axial, 
many seeded ; seeds anatropous; eméryo small, basal ; albumen fleshy. 
Sarraceniacess.—This family of Bog plants is characterized as follows : Root 
Perennial; Zeaves all radical, purplish or yellowish-green, conga 0 less inflated 
tubular, the true blade represented by a hood or lamina surrounding the throat of 
the tube. Yowers single (Exc. Heliamphora) nodding at the summit of a long, 
* In honor of Dr. Sarrazin of Quebec, who sent the plant to Tournefort. : . 
+ In the plate most of the leaves have been cut off, and those remaining have been constrained to take such posi- 
tions as would best show their various characters within the small scope of the paper. 
