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the top like an ordinary tin horn. Thej are of a fine 

 green, except that towards the top they become pure 

 white, netted with crimson veins. The flowers are crim- 

 son. This is the most beautiful of the family. 



Sarracenia Flava (Trumpets). — This is the largest of 

 all, producing, in its native swamp, handsome green, 

 trumpet-like pitchers, often three feet high. Flowers 

 large, yellow. 



Sarracenia Purpurea. — This hardy northern species is 

 not unworthy of a place in any collection. By giving it 

 peaty soil and moss, it may be naturalized on the margin 

 of a pond or stream. Flowers purple. 



Sarracenia Variolaris. — Pitchers from twelve to eigh- 

 teen inches high, very curiously hooded at the top, these 

 hoods being spotted with white. Flowers yellow. 



Sarracenia Rubra. — A small growing species, with 

 slender, trumpet-shaped leaves of a reddish color. Very 

 neat when grown several together in a pot. Flowers 

 crimson purple. 



Darlingtonia Californica (the California Pitcher 

 Plant). — This has the most curiously-formed pitchers of 

 any of the tribe. They grow to the hight of from fifteen 

 inches to two and a half feet, and have some resemblance 

 to those of the Sarracenias, but differ from them in hav- 

 ing the upper part arch over, like an inflated hood, and 

 having a large triangular appendage hanging loosely from 

 it. They are beautifully mottled with white and veined 

 with red. Flowers straw-color and pale purple. 



Dio?icea Muscipnia (Venus's Fly-trap). — A most won- 

 derful little plant, called ^^Venus's Fly-trap." It has 

 strange, trap-like arrangements at the ends of the leaves, 

 which, owing to the hair-like, sensitive organs on the 

 inner surface, will close instantly when touched by an 

 insect or any light substance. It is grown like the 

 Pitcher Plants. 



