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42. SARRACENIACEZ. PitTrcHER-PLANT FAMILY. 
Perennial, stemless, marsh herbs. Leaves tubular or 
trumpet-shaped. Flowers single, nodding, on a naked or 
bracted scape. Sepals 4-5, colored, persistent. Petals 5, 
deciduous, or sometimes wanting. Stamens numerous. Pistil 
compound, 5-celled, many-ovuled ; style terminal, nearly as 
broad as the flower, shield-shaped.* 
SARRACENIA, Tourn. 
Rootstock short, horizontal ; scape naked. Leaves trumpet- 
shaped, with a wing extending nearly to the base and a broad 
blade at the apex (see Part II, Ch. XXVI); tube hairy 
within, with downward-pointing, stiff hairs. Calyx 3-bracted. 
Petals obovate, drooping or incurved. Style umbrella-shaped, 
5-angled ; stigmas at the hooked angles of the style on the 
under surface. Capsule globose, rough. [The tubular leaves 
usually contain more or less water and dead insects, the latter 
having been attracted by a honey-like secretion near the 
opening. For a full account of the structure and peculiar 
action of the leaves, see Goodale’s Physiological Botany, 
pp. 347-353. |* 
1. S. purpurea, L. SrpE-sADDLE FLoweEr. Leaves ascending, 
curved, broadly winged, purple-veined, 4-8 in. long; blade erect, 
round-cordate, hairy on the inner side. Scapes 12-18 in. tall; flower 
deep purple, about 2 in. broad. Style yellowish. Mossy swamps.* 
43. SAXIFRAGACEZ. SAxIFRAGE FAMILY. 
~ Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, generally 
without stipules. Sepals 4 or 5, more or less coherent with 
each other and adnate to the ovary. Petals as many as the 
sepals and alternate with them. Stamens as many as the 
petals and alternate with them, or 2-10 times as many. 
Ovary usually of 2 carpels, united only at the base or more 
or less throughout. Fruit generally a 1-2-celled capsule, 
sometimes a berry. Seeds many, with endosperm. 
