SABRACENE.E, 289 



Ordeb xlvii. SARRACENE/E. 



Diimortier, Analyse des Families des Plantes, 53 (1829). 



A singular family of acaulescent herbs with hollow pitcher-like leaves; 

 here represented by the monotypical genus 



1. CHRYSAMPHORA, Greene (Daelingtonia). Scapose 1-flowered 

 stem, and long yellowish trumpet-shaped leaves from horizontal root- 

 stocks. Calyx of 5 narrowly oblong imbricated sepals, persistent. Petals 

 5, ovate-oblong, erect, with a small ovate tip to the oblong main jiart. 

 Stamens 12 — 15, in one series, hypogynous; filaments subulate; anthers 

 oblong, of 2 unequal cells turned edgewise by a twist of the filament. 

 Ovary somewhat turbinate, being dilated towards the truncate or concave 

 summit, exceeding the stamens, 5-celled; the cells opposite the petals; 

 style short, 5-lobed, the lobes recurved; stigmas thickish, introrsely 

 terminal. Capsule loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds go , ovate-clavate, thickly 

 beset with short slender projections. 



1. C. Californica, Greene, Pittonia, ii. 191 (1891); Torr. Sm. Contr. 

 vi. 4. t. 1 (1853), under Lailivgtoriia. Pitcher-like leaves \% — 2% ft. 

 high, very gradually dilated upwards, somewhat spirally striate, the 

 uppermost portion reticulate or mottled; the vaulted lid or hood ending 

 in a forked foliaceous appendage; the Ijody of the pitcher also append- 

 aged by a wing 2 —4 lines wide running down one (the inner) side: scape 

 exceeding the leaves, scaly-bracted: fl. nodding; the yellowish sepals 

 expanding; the purplish or reddish petals suberect; the whole flower 

 2—3 in. broad. — In bogs, at middle elevations of the Sierra, chiefly north- 

 ward, about Mt. Shasta, etc. May. 



Order XLVIII. DROSERE/E. 



Salisbury, Paradisus Londinensis, 95 (1807). Droseeace^, De Can- 

 dolle, Theorie Elementaire, 214 (1813). 



An order of small bog herbs, represented here by two species of the 

 typical genus, 



1. DROSERA, L in yf^j/s- (Sundew). Low perennials or biennials, the 

 purplish or brownish herbage beset with bristles whose gland-like tips 

 secrete a drop of glistening viscous liquid. Leaves (in ours radical and 

 rosulate-tufted) petiolate, with a villoiis stipular fringe at base; the 

 blade infiexed or involute in bud. Flowers in an unilateral scorpioid 

 raceme or spike which is bracted, but the flowers not in the axils of the 

 bracts. Calyx 5-parted, persistent, the segments imbricate in bud. 



