Darlingtonia. SARRACENIACEJS. 81 



swamps, S. W. Georgia and adjacent Florida, at Apalachicola, &c., first made known from 

 foliage coll. by Driuinnond and flowers by Chapman. 



* * Petals and whole flower yellow : leaves with elongated pitchers or tubes, in S. States 

 called Trumpets or Trumpet-leaf, and the flowers Watches ! 



S. variolaris, Michx. Leaves 3 to 14 (rarely 20) inches high ; the tube narrowly or rather 

 bi-oadly winged, dorsally reticulate-variegated at and below the summit with green and 

 purplish veining on a yellowish white translucent ground ; the ovate fornicate hood inflexed 

 over the wide open orifice, puberuleut and purple-veiny within ; mouth of the tube and edge 

 of the wing for a time bedewed with a sweet alluring secretion : phyllodial leaves seemingly 

 hardly any: petals an inch or more long, little accrescent after anthesis. — Fl. i. 310; Sims, 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1710; Ell. Sk. ii. 11 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 803; Croom, 1. c. 102; Torr. & Gray, 



1. c. ; Mellichamp, Nature, x. 253 ; A. DC. 1. c. 6.^ ? S. minor, Walt. Car. 153. 6\ adunca, 

 Smith, Exot. Bot, i. 103, t, 53; Macbride, Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 48. — Low pine-barren.s, 

 N. Carolina to Florida in the low country.'^ 



S. flava, L. Narrowly trumpet-shaped leaves about 2 feet long ; pitcher bordered with very 

 narrow wing, yellowish green, unspotted ; hood ovate and soon erect, with (often reddish) 

 base contracted or recurved at sides, hispidulous-puberulent within, commonly with purple 

 reticulated veinlets ; autumnal phyllodial leaves oblong or lanceolate and falcate, a span or 

 two long ; petals at first inch and a half long, becoming pendulous, elongating to 2^ or 3 

 inches. — Spec. i. 510; Walt. Car. 153; Michx. 1. c. ; Audr. Bot. Rep. t. 381 ; Sims, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 780; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1957 ; Ell. Sk. ii. 10 ; Croom, 1. c. 103 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; 

 Planchon, 1. c. t. 1068 ; A. DC. 1. c.^ S. Cateshiei, Ell. Sk. ii. 11, greener form. S. Gronovii, 

 Wood, 1. c. — Wet meadows and swamps. North Carolina to Florida ; fl. spring and early 

 summer. 



2. DARLING-T6NIA, Torr. (Dr. Wm. Darlington of Pennsylvania, 



author of Flora Cestrica, &c. ) — Smiths. Contrib. vi. 4, t. 12, Bot. Wilkes 



Exped. 221, & Bull. Torr. Club, ii. 14; Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xvi. 425, 



XXXV. 136; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 48 ; Planchon, Fl. Serres, xiv. 125, t. 1440; 



Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5920 ; A. DC. Prodr. xvii. 2 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif. 



i. 17. — Single species. 



D. Calif ornica, Torr. 11. cc. Rootstock elongated and creeping, rough-scaly : leaves (a span 

 to 2 feet long) greenish yellow, of uervose tubes gradually enlarging upward and with 

 dilated and inflated-saccate externally white-variegated incurved summit, so that the con- 

 tracted orifice looks downward, its proper apex bearing a conspicuous divergently bifid 

 pendulous appendage resembling a fish-tail and generally reddish or yellowish ; the whole 

 leaf twisted half round, the orifice becoming averse from the scape . ventral wing a narrow 

 border: scape bearing several greenish and membranaceous alternate bracts, nodding at 

 apex, greenish, at length 2 inches long : petals greenish yellow and reddi.sh l)rown or purple. 

 — Mountain bogs of the Sierra Nevada, California, at 1,000 to 6,000 feet, from Truckee Pass 

 to Shasta Co. (where first coll. without flowers, hy Pickering and Brackenridge) ; also within 

 the borders of Oregon, Waldo Co., Howell.: A- spring. Areolation of the inflated hooded 

 summit of the leaf translucent : appendage within beset with retrorse bristly hairs, and 

 along its margins producing a sweet alluring secretion, which sometimes extends downward 

 on the edge of the wing, as discovered by Airs. R. M. Aust'tn. For details of mode of 

 capturing insects, see Canby, Proc. Am. Ass. Sci. 1874, pt. 2, 64, and abstract in Brew. & 

 Wats. 1. c. 18. 



* Meehan's Monthly, iv. 1, t. 1. 



2 Some striking variations are noted by Miss Mary F. Peirce, Bull. Torr. Club, xiv. 229. 



8 Meehan's Monthly, ii. 113, t. 8. 



