80 SARRACENIACE^. Sarracenia. 



the orifice of the pitcher in all the species. — Hybrids and varieties of cultivation 



unnoticed. 



* Petals brown-red or maroon (rarely varying to greenish yellow), little accrescent after 

 authesis. 



-1— Leaves short, with ventral wing broad, commonly semi-obovate, in some later-grown 

 leaves even wider than the pitcher: sepals coriaceous and mostly dark colored. 



S. purpurea, L. (Side-saddle Flowek, Huntsman's Cup, &c.) Leaves ascending; 

 pitcher gibbous-obovate, with open orifice ; liood erect, round-cordate, concave, the inner 

 face strongly retrorse-hispid and reticulated with broad purple veins ; petals 2 inches long. 

 — Spec. i. 510 (Catesb. Car. ii. t. 70) ; Lam. 111. t. 452; Michx. F\. i. 310; Sims, Bot. Mag. 

 t. 849 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 308 ; Croom, Ann. Lye. N. Y. iv. 98 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 59.i 

 S. heteropliijUa, Eaton, Man. ed. 4, 445 {S. purpurea, var. heterophyl/a, Torr. Compend. 217, 

 & n. N. Y. i. 41, t. 6), an occasional form with greener foliage and yellowish green flower. 

 Var. alata, Wood, Bot. & Fl. 30, refers to the phyflodial wing, which in certain leaves of 

 most plants is wider than the diminished pitcher. — Sphagnous bogs, Newfoundland and 

 S. Labrador to Bear Lake and south to Florida and Alabama, but southward mainly east 

 of the Allegliauies. A remarkable range in latitiide and climate. A monstrosity coll. by 

 /. Sprague has the umbrella of the style deeply 5-parted into linear divisions ! 



S. psittacina, Michx. Leaves reclined in a rosulate tuft ; pitcher narrow, of clavate out- 

 line, 2 to 5 inches long, densely and retrorsely long-hirsute within ; hood strongly incurved 

 over the contracted orifice, globose-inflated, dorsally white-variegated and commonly pur- 

 plish-tinged : petals inch and a half long. — Fl. i. 311 ; Pursh, Fl. ii. 368; Croom, 1. c. 101 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Masters, Card. Cliron. 1866, 1218, fig., & 1881, pt. 1, 817, fig.; A. DC. 

 1. c. 4.2 S. calceoJata, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 49, t. 1. S. pulchella, Croom, 

 Am. Jour. Sci. xxv. 75, & xxviii. 167. — Piue-barren swamps, from near Augusta, Georgia, 

 to Apalachicola, Florida, and S. Alabama. 



^— -1— Leaves erect with long and narrow or trumpet-shaped open-mouthed tube and soon 

 ascending or erect hood; the wing a narrow margin or in the phyllodial leaves (with 

 reduced abortive tube) linear-lanceolate. 



S. rubra, Walt. Leaves slender, the larger a foot or more long, wholly green with reddish 

 veins above; hood ovate, varying from obtuse to acuminate, usually inflexed when young, 

 at length erect and merely concave, reddish or red-veined and variegated ; retrorse pubes • 

 cence of inner face minute: petals inch or so long. — Car. 152; Ell. Sk. ii. 10; Croom, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. iv. 99 ; Hook. Exot. Fl. i. 1. 13 (excl. syn.), & Bot. Mag. t. 3515 ; Lodd. Bot. 

 Cab. t. 1163 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Planchon, Fl. Serres, x. t. 1074.3 ,5 ,„/„or. Sweet, Brit. 

 Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 138, with only earlier small leaves. S. rubra & S. Sweetii, A. DC. 1. c. 5. 

 S. Gronovii, var. rubra, Wood, Class-Book, ed. of 1861, 222. — Swamps, N. Carolina to 

 Georgia and Alabama, in the middle country and toward the mountains.* 



S. Drummondii, Croom. Leaves ampler (from less than a foot to a yard high), with 

 orifice an inch or two in diameter; hood roundish with contracted base, soon erect and 

 flattish or with recurved margins, retrorsely hispid on the inner face, and with the whole 

 summit of the pitcher highly variegated with red-purple reticulation on a white semitraus- 

 parent ground ; the wing extremely narrow : plane phyllodial leaves sometimes 2 feet long : 

 petals 2 inches long. — Ann. Lye! N. Y. iv. 100, t. 1; Torr. & Gray, 1. c; Planchon, Fl. 

 Serres, x. 239, t. 1071, 1072.^ 5. Drummondii & S. undulata, Decsne, Rev. Hort. ser. 4, i. 

 (1852) 126, & Fl. Serres, vii. 267, 268; A. DC. 1. c, the latter a mere form or stage with 

 erect and undulate hood, well marked in leaves of original specimens. (S. leucophi/lla, Raf. 

 Fl. Lud. is essentially fictitious.) S. Gronovii, var. Drummondii, Wood, 1. c. — Pine-barren 



1 Meehan's Monthly, i. 86, t. 6. 



2 Meehan, Native Flowers, ser. 2, i. 21, t. 5. 

 8 Meehan, 1. c. 37, t. 9. 



4 Natural hybrids apparently of S. rubra and S. purpurea have been noted, very similar to those 

 of cnltivation. 



6 Meehan, 1. c. 5, t. 1. 



