NAT. ORDER, 



Sairacenie<s. 



SARRACENIA RUBRA. RED SIDE-SADDLE. 



Class XIII. PoLYANDRiA. Older I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Cliar. Calyx, of five permanent sepals. Leaflets, ovate. Co- 

 rolla, five, parted, daws, ovate-oblong, straight. 



Spe. Char. Stamens, numerous. Anthers, simple. Sti/le, cylindri- 

 cal, very short. Stigmas, peltate. Seeds, numerous. 



This small plant rises from one to two feet high ; the cali/.r is 

 composed of five permanent sepals, which are concave at the base, 

 and furnished with a three-leaved involucram just under it ; corolla of 

 five petals, which are contracted at the base, and unquiculate ; sta- 

 mens, numerous, hypogynous, and closely packed together ; filaments, 

 shortish ; anthers, fixed by their back, oblong, two-celled, opening up- 

 wards from the base, hardly to the apex ; ovanj, one large globose, 

 with five longitudinal furrows ; style, columnar, crowned by a broad 

 convex, leafy, five-angled stigma ; capsidc, globose, crowTied by the 

 permanent style and stigma, five-lobed, five-celled, five-valved, many 

 seeded, valves separating from the apex ; placentas, five, one in each 

 cell closely covered with seeds, progressing from the central axis ; 

 seeds, small, minutely tubercled ; embryo, cylindrical, cleft at one ex- 

 tremity into two catyledons, placed at the base of a copious waxy- 

 gTanular albumen, with the radicle pointing towards the hilum ; the 

 seeds are keeled on their under side, inserted by their narrowest point 

 upon a large club-shaped, stipitate receptacle, which stands out from 

 the central column or axis into the middle of each cell ; the vah-cs of 

 the capsule open from above between the cells, whose dissepiments 

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