SARRACENIACE.E. (PITCIIEK-I>LANTS.) f,l 



Order 7. SARRACKNIACE^. (I'itcher-Plants.) 



Polijcindrous and hf/pof/ynons bof/-plan(s, tcii/i Iiollow pitcher-form or 

 trumpet-ahaped leaves, — comprising one plant in tlu- mountains of Gui- 

 ana, another (Darlingtonia, Turr.) in California, and the following genus 

 in the Atlantic United States. 



1. SARRACENIA, Tourn. Side-saddlk Fi.owkr. 



Sepals 5, with 3 hractlets at the hase, colored, persistent. I'etals 5, ohlong 

 or obovate, mcurved, deciduous. Stamens numerous, hypogynous. Ovary 

 compound, 5-celled, glohose, crowned with a short style, which is expanded at 

 the summit into a very broad and petal-like, 5-angled, 5-rayed, umbrella-sliaiied 

 body , the 5 delicate rays terminating under the angles in as many little hooked 

 stigmas. Capsule with a granular surface, 5-celled, with many-seeded placentae 

 in the axis, loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds anatropous, with a small embryo at 

 the base of fleshy albumen. — Perennials, yellowish-green and purplish; the 

 hollow leaves all radical, with a wing on one side, and a rounded arching hood 

 at the apex. Scape naked, 1 -flowered ; flower nodding. (Named by Tournefort 

 in honor of Dr. Snrrasin of Quebec, who first sent our Northern species, and a 

 botanical account of it, to Europe.) 



1. S. purpurea, L. (Side-saddle Flower. riTcriER-PLAXT. Hunts- 

 man's Clt.) /.c«i-e6- yj/fc/jer-i'/fayx'c/, ascending, curved, broadly winged ; the 

 hood erect, open, round heart-shaped ; flower deep purple ; the fiddle-shaped 

 petals arched over the greenish-yellow style. — Varies rarely Avith greenish- 

 yellow flowers, and without purple veins in the foliage. — Peat-bogs ; common 

 from N Eug. to Minn., N. E. Iowa, and southward east of the Alleghanies. 

 June. — The curious leaves are usually half filled with water and drowned in- 

 sects. The inner face of the hood is clothed with stiff bristles pointing down- 

 ward. Flower globose, nodding on a scape a foot high ; it is difficult to fancy 

 any resemblance between its shape and a side-saddle, but it is not very unlike 

 a pillion. 



2. S. flava, L. (Trumpets.) Leaves lonrj (1-3°) and trnmpet-shnped, 

 erect, with an open mouth, the erect hood rounded, narrow at the bavse; wing 

 almost none; Jloiver yellow, the petals becoming long and drooping. — Bogs, 

 Va and southward. April. 



Order 8. PAPAVERACE^E. (Porrv Fa.mily.) 



Herbs ivith milky or colored Juice, rerpdar flowers with the parts in twos 

 or fours, fugacious sepals, polyandrous, hypogynous, the ovary \-celled with 

 two or more parietal placentce. — Sepals 2, rarely 3, falling when the flower 

 expands. Petals 4-12, spreading, imbricated and often crumpled in the 

 bud, early deciduous. Stamens rarely as few as 1 6, distinct. Fruit a dry 

 1-celled pod (in the Poppy imperfectly many-celled, in (ilaucium 2-celled). 

 Seeds numerous, anatropous, often crested, with a minute embryo at the 

 base of fleshy and oily albumen. — Leaves alternate, without stipules. 

 Peduncles mostly 1 -flowered. Juice narcotic or acrid. 



