160 SARRACENIACEAE, (Vor. II. 
Leaves pitcher-shaped, curved; flower purple or greenish (rarely yellow). 1. S. purpurea, 
Leaves tubular-trumpet-shaped; flower yellow. 2. S. flava. 
1. Sarracenia purpureal,. Pitcher-plant. Side-saddle Flower. (Fig. 1801.) 
Sarracenia purpurea I,. Sp. Pl. 510. 1753- 
Glabrous, except the inner side of the lamina and 
fy] inner surface of the pitchers, which are densely 
/ j c ) : clothed with stiff reflexed hairs. Leaves tufted, as- 
2 cending, curved, 4’-12’ long, purple-veined, or some- 
tree , times green all over, much inflated, narrowed into a 
< ) “ea Ey or, petiole below, broadly winged, persistent; scapes 
~~ "““" 192° high, slender, bearing a single nodding deep 
2>5 purple nearly globose flower 2’ in diameter or more; 
f petals obovate, narrowed in the middle, incurved 
over the yellowish style. 
In peat-bogs, Labrador to the Canadian Rocky Moun- 
tains, Florida, Kentucky and Minnesota. May-June. 
The hollow leaves are commonly more or less completely 
filled with water containing drowned insects. Young 
plants often bear several smaller flat obliquely ovate 
leaves. Called also Huntsman’s Cup and Indian Cup. 
Sarracenia purpirea heterophylla (Eaton) Torr. Fl. N. Y. 1: 
41. 1843. 
Sarracenia heterophylla Eaton, Man. Ed. 3, 447. 1822. 
Flowers yellow; leaves slightly or not at all purple- 
veined, light green or yellowish. Massachusetts and 
New York to New Jersey. 
2. Sarracenia flava L. ‘Trumpets. 
Trumpet-leaf. (Fig. 1802.) 
Sarracenia flava I. Sp. Pl. 510. 1753. 
Glabrous throughout. Leaves trumpet- 
shaped, 1°-3° long, 1/—2’ wide at the orifice, 
narrowly winged, prominently ribbed, green, 
the lid 1/-4’ wide, obtuse or acuminate, erect, 
contracted at the base; scape 1°-2° high, 
slender; flower 2’-3’ broad, yellow; petals 
narrow, oblanceolate or obovate, sometimes 
3’ long, drooping, slightly contracted at the 
middle. 
In bogs, Virginia(?), North Carolina to Flor- 
ida, west to Louisiana. April. 
Family 36. DROSERACEAE S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2:664. 1821. 
SUNDEW FAMILY. 
Perennial or biennial glandular-pubescent herbs, exuding a copious viscid 
secretion, mostly with basal leaves, circinate in the bud, and fugacious perfect 
flowers, racemose in our species. Calyx persistent, 4—5-parted or the sepals 
distinct and imbricated. Petal 5, hypogynous, convolute, marcescent, distinct or 
slightly united at the base. Stamens 4-20, hypogynous or perigynous; fila- 
ments subulate or filiform; anthers usually versatile. Disk none. Ovary free, 
or its base adnate to the calyx, globose or ovoid, 1-3-celled; styles 1-5, simple, 
2-cleft or multifid; ovules numerous. Capsule 1-5-celled, loculicidally dehis- 
cent. Seeds several or numerous; endosperm fleshy; embryo straight, cylindric. 
Six genera and about 125 species, of wide geographic distribution. 
