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3. Sarracenia l. 



Sarracenia L. *) Spec. pl. ed. I. (1753) 510; Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina II. 

 (1754) 69; Smith, Gorr. Linn. I. (1765) 69; Walter, Fl. Carol. (1788) 152; W. 

 Bartram, Travels ed. 2. (179 i) XII. 415; Michx. Fl. bor. amer. I. (1803) 310; J. E. 

 Smith, Exot. Bol. I. (180 4) 103; Gurtis, Botan. Mag. (180 4) t. 780, (1805) t. 8 49, 

 (1815) t. 1710, (1836) t. 3515; Pers. Synops. II. (1807) 62; Pursh, Fl. Amer. sept. II. 

 (1814) 367; Macbride in Trans. Linn. Soc. XII. (1815) 48; de la Pylaie in Ann. Soc. 

 Linn. Paris VI. (1827) 379; Nutt. Gen. N. y Amer. PI. II. (1818) 11, et in Trans. Amer. 

 Phil. Soc. N. S. IV. (1834) 49; Elliott, Bot. S. Car. II. (1824) 9; DG. Organ. Veg. I. 

 (1827) 319; Reichb. Flor. Exot. I. (1834) 10; Torrey et Gray, Fl. N. Amer. I. (1838) 

 59; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. V. (1838) t. 138; Croom in Amer. Journ. Sc. XXV. (1834) 

 75, XXVI. (1834) 316, in Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. IV. (1848) 95; Torrey, Nat. Hist. 

 N. Y. I. (1843) 41; Walp. Repert. IL (1843) 25; Gray, Gen. Fl. Amer. I. (1848) 107; 

 Lindl. Introd. to Bot. I. (1848) 298; Decne. in Fl. des serres VII. (1851) 264, et in 

 Rev. Hort. I. (1852) 121; Planchon in Fl. des serres X. (1855) 233, 243, 247; 

 Chapman, Fl. S. U. States (1860) 20; Oudemans, De Bekerplanten (1863); Baill. Hist. 

 pl. III. (1872) 103; Hooker f. in Brit. Assoc. Report (1874) 107; Otto in Hamburg. 

 Gart. Zeitg. XXXV. (1879) 337; Maslers in Gard. Chron. ser. 2. XV. (1881) 817, XVI. 

 (1881) 11 ; Meehan, Fl. and Ferns of U. S. ser. 2. L (1870) 5, 21, 37; Zipperer, Kennt, 

 d. Sarr. (18 85); Wunschmann in Engl. u. Prantl Pflzfam. III. 2. (1891) 244; Gray, 

 Synopt. Fl. N. Amer. I. (1895) 79; Beck v. Mannagetta in Wien. 111. Gart. Zeitg. XX. 

 (1895) 456; Mohr, Plant Life of Ala. (1901) 117, 530; Small, Fl. S. E. U. States 



(1903) 493; Harper in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club XXVII. (l 900) 428, XXX. (1903) 331, 

 XXXI. (1904) 22, XXXIII. (1906) 236; Macfarlane in Contrib. Bot. Lab. Univ. Penn. IL 



(1904) 426, in Trans. Roy. Hort. Soc. Conf. Genetics (1907) 155, Journ. of Bot. XLV. 

 (1907) 1. — Bucanephyllon Plukenet Phytogr. (1691) t. 152. — Bucanephoron Pluk. 

 Almag. (1696) 71. — Coilophyllum Morison, Plant. Hist. (1699) 533. — Nepenthes 

 Breyn. Prodr. (1739) 85. — Sarracena Tourn. Inst. (1719) 657; L. Hort. Cliff. (1737) 

 497; P. Miller in Gard. Dict. ed. 6. (1752); Adans. Fam. IL ^1763) 450. — Sarrazinia 

 Hoffmannsegg, Verzeichn. d. Pfl. (1824) 223. 



Flos in scapo solitarius nutans, in fructu nutans vel zh erectus; bracteae tres, 

 ovales concavae parvae, sepalis arcte adpressae. Sepala 5 ovata, expansa, herbacea vel 

 petaloidea, persistentia. Petala 5 dz panduriformia, sub medio contracta et basi inter 

 lobos stylorum inflexa, apice flaccido dependente. Stamina oo, antheris saepe initio ab 

 apice dein longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Pistillum 5-carpellatum ; ovarium dense glandu- 

 loso-tuberculatum, 5-loculare, loculis sepalis oppositis; Stylus inferne cylindricus, superne 

 in umbraculum magnum 5-lobatum expansus, lobis bifidis, stigmatibus papillosis parvis 

 intra basim bifidam. Capsula rotundata, rb 5-loba, tuberculata, umbraculo styli coronala, 

 fissuris lateralibus dehiscens. Semina numerosa, parva, ovata vel obovata, minutc 

 reticulata vel tuberculata; raphe saepe conspicua. — Herbae humidae uliginosae et 

 paludosae, regionem orientalem Americae septentrionalis incolentes. Folia erecta v. ascen- 

 dentia v. procumbentia , petiolata, glabra v. parce pubescentia et glandulis minutis 

 conspersa; petiolus cylindricus solidus alatus, basi et aus expansis amplexicaulibus; 

 foliorum lamina dimorphia vel trimorphia, folia vernalia (in speciebus omnibus obvia) 

 ascidiformia, ascidium extus tubulosum vel ventricosum, parte ventrali unialatum, ala 

 ab basi ad os prolongata; os sursum v. oblique v. deorsum rectum; operculum rectum 

 et =t expansum, vel concavum et supra os inclinatum , vel apice ascidii postice con- 

 junctum et valde cucullatum; ascidium intus ab ore versus medium glabrum, inferne 



*) Genus a Tournefortio dicat. Dr. Sarrasin in Quebec, N. A. , non Jean A. Sarracin in 

 Lyons (1598 A. D.). Vide Tournefort, Instit. I. p. 657. »Sarracenam appellavi a Clarissimo 

 D. Sarrazin« (err. pro Sarrasin, vide Mem. de l'Acad. Roy. d. Sc. XIX. (1704) 48. — auctor) 

 >Medicinae Doctore, Anatomico et Botanico Regio insigni, qui eximiam hanc plantam pro summa 

 qua me complectitur benevolentia e Canada misit«, et Macfarlane in J. of B. v. s. 



