SARRACENIACE^. ( PITCHER-PLANTS.) 57 



Order 7. SAKRACENIACE^aE. (Pitcher-Plants.^ 



Poiyandrous and hypogynous hog-plants, with hollow pitcher-form, or 

 trumpet-shaped leaves, — comprising one plant in the mountains of Gui- 

 ana, another (Darlingtonia, Torr.) in California, and the following genus 

 in the Atlantic United States. 



1. SARRACENIA, Tourn. Side-saddle Flower. 



Sepals 5, with 3 bractlets at the base, colored, persistent. Petals 5, oblong 

 or obovate, incurved, deciduous. Stamens numerous, hypogynous. Ovary 

 compound, 5-celled, globose, crowned with a short style, which is expanded at 

 the summit into a very broad and petal-like, 5-anglecl, 5-rayed, umbrella-shaped 

 body , the 5 delicate rays terminating under the angles in as many little hooked 

 stigmas. Capsule with a granular surface, 5-celled, with many-seeded placentae 

 in the axis, loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds auatropous, with a small embryo at 

 the base of fleshy albumen. — Perennials, yellowish-green and purplish; the 

 hollow leaves all radical, with a wing on one side, and a rounded arching hood 

 at the apex. Scape naked, 1 -flowered ; flower nodding. (Named by Tournefort 

 in honor of Dr. Sarrasin of Quebec, who first sent our Northern species, and a 

 botanical account of it, to Europe.) 



1. S. purpurea, L. (Side-saddle Flowei;. Pitchek-Plant. Hunts- 

 man's Cli'.) Leaves pitcher-shaped, Ti^QQudmgy Q\xv\e(\, broadly winged ; the 

 hood erect, open, round heart-shaped ; flower deep purple ; the fiddle-shaped 

 petals arched over the greenisli-yellow style. — Varies rarely with greenish- 

 yellow flowers, and without purple veins in the foliage. — Peat-bogs; common 

 from N Eng. to Minn., N. E. Iowa, and southward east of the Alleghanies. 

 June. — The curious leaves are usually half filled with water and drowned in- 

 sects. The inner face of the hood is clothed with stiff bristles pointing down- 

 ward. Flower globose, nodding on a scape a foot high , it is difficult to fancy 

 any resemblance between its shape and a side-saddle, but it is not very unlike 

 a pillion. 



2. S. flava, E. (Trumpets.) Leaves long (1-3°) and trumpet-shaped, 

 erect, with an open mouth, the erect hood rounded, narrow at the base ; wing 

 almost none ; flower yelloir, the petals becoming long and drooping. — Bogs, 

 Va and southward. April. 



Order 8. PAPAVERACE^E. (Poppy Family.) 



Herbs with milky or colored juice, regular flowers with the parts in twos 

 or fours, fugacious sepals, poiyandrous, hypogynous, the ovary 1-celled with 

 two or more parietal placentce. — Sepals 2. rarely 3, falling when the flower 

 expands. Petals 4 — 12, spreading, imbricated and often crumpled in the 

 bud, early deciduous. Stamens rarely as few as 16, distinct. Fruit a dry 

 1-celled pod (in the Poppy imperfectly many-celled, in Glaucium 2-celled). 

 Seeds numerous, anatropous, often crested, with a minute embryo at the 

 base of fleshy and oily albumen. — Leaves alternate, without stipules. 

 Peduncles mostlv 1 -flowered. .Juice narcotic or acrid. 



