PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 467 



Order SARRACENIALES. 



Family SARRACENIACE^. Pitcher-Plants. 



SARRACENIA L. 



Sarracenia purpurea L. Pitcher Plant. 



Plates LXIII. and LXIV., Fig. 2. 



Sarracenia purpurea Linnseus, Sp. PI. 510. 1753 [N. America]. — Barton, Fl. 

 Phila. II. 10. 1818. — Knieskern 6. — Willis 5. — Britton 44. — Keller and 

 Brown 166. 



Occasional or local in bogs of the northern, Middle and Cape 

 May districts. Common in bogs and cedar swamps of the Pine 

 Barrens. 



This is one of the plants which makes the bogs of the Pine 

 Barrens so attractive. Mingled with the button-capped stems of 

 Eriocaulon, and accompanied by its close allies, the Droseras, it 

 always attracts interest — its water filled cups sunk well down in 

 the sphagnum and its flower scape standing aloft. 



The pitchers are usually well formed and handsomely veined 

 with crimson on a yellowish green ground color in plants which 

 grow in the open bogs, but in the deep shade of the cedar 

 swamps they are greener and narrower, with a greater develop- 

 ment of flat keel on top. 



Fl. — Late May to mid- June. 



Middle District — Freehold (Willis), Shark River, Five miles west of 

 Swedesboro. 



Pine Barrens.— Allaire, Farniingdale, Lakehnrst (NY), Toms River, Forked 

 River, Tuckerton (UP), Bamber, Pemberton, Brindletown, Speedwell, Berlin, 

 Atco (UP), Malaga (UP), Pleasant Mill, Mouth of Batsto, Eighth St. (T), 

 Hammonton (Bassett), Egg Harbor City, Petersburg (S). 



Cape May.— Goshen (OHB), Cape May (OHB). 



. Family DROSERACE^. Sundews. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Blade of the leaf orbicular, flowers white. Drosera rotundifolia, p. 468 

 aa. Blade of the leaf spatulate, flowers white. D. longifolia, p. 468 



aaa. Leaf filiform, not divided into blade and petiole, flowers large, pink. 



D. aiiformis, p. 469 



