22 DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



HAB. Fields. N. S. May Oct. y. Stem 1218 inches 

 high. Flowers yellow. Plant full of an orange juice. Probably 

 introduced. Celadine. 



ORDER. X. SARRACENIE^E. Hook. Liml. 



Sepals 5, persistent, often having a 3-leaved involucre on 

 the outside ; (estivation imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous ; 

 unguiculate, concave. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous ; an- 

 thers oblong, adnate, 2-celled, bursting internally and longitu- 

 dinally. Ovary superior, 5-celled ; style single ; stigma 

 much dilated, peltate, with 5 angles. Capsule crowned by the 

 persistent stigma, with 5 cells and 6 loculicidal valves. Seeds 

 very numerous, minute, slightly warted, covering 5 large pla- 

 centae, which project from the axis into the cavity of the cells ; 

 albumen abundant ; embryo cylindrical, lying near the base of 

 the seed, with the radicle turned to the hilum. 



Herbs found in bogs. Roots fibrous. Leaves radical with 

 a hollow urn-shaped petiole, at the apex of which is articula- 

 ted the lamina, which covers the petiole like a lid. Scapes 

 having each one large flower. 



1. SARRACENIA. Linn. 



Sepals 5, with a 3-leaved involucre. Petals 5. Capsule 

 5-celled. Style with a clypeate stigma. 



Polyandria. Monogynia. 



S. purpurca Linn. : leaves much shorter than the scape, inflated, 

 contracted at the mouth, having a broad arched lateral wing ; appen- 

 dix erect, broad-cordate, undulate, not mucronate. 



HAB. Sphagnous swamps. Can. to Car. June, July. If. 

 Scape 12 feet high, with a solitary terminal purple flower. 



Side-saddle FUnccr. 



ORDER XI. FUMARIACE,E. De Cand. Lind. 



Sepals 2, deciduous. Petals 4, cruciate, parallel ; the two 

 outer, either one or both, saccate at the base ; the 2 inner cal- 

 lous and coloured at the apex, where they cohere and enclose 

 the anthers and stigma. Stamens 6, in two parcels opposite 

 the outer petals, very seldom all separate ; anthers membra- 

 nous. Ovary superior, 1-celled ; style filiform ; stigma with 

 two or more points. Fruit either an indehiscent 1 or 2 seed- 



