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Of the species there are not many. The most useful is 

 S. Bnimmondi, of wliich there are several varieties, alba being 

 perhaps the best. This is of tall growth. The pitchers are 

 nearly a yard high. The lid is most delicately veined with 

 carmine, on a creamy pale green or snow-white ground. The 

 flowers are dull purplish red, handsome and peculiar. The 

 variety of Drummondi called rubra has pitchers richly veined, 

 red and pale green ; the flowers mount high above them, and 

 are of a great size, and a most beautiful purplish red colour. 



S.flava is also a tall kind, the pitchers being two and a half 

 feet high, and the flowers a trifle taller. The latter are yel- 



A, heat oi San'aceniajlava ; B, hsixi oi Sarracenia purpurea ; 

 C, Leaf of Darlingtoiiia Californlca. 



lowish-green, quite transparent ; the pitchers also are tlie 

 same colour. It is a fine species. There is a variety of this 

 cvCiXedi ])icta, which is more distinctly veined than the species. 



S. purpurea is very dwarf, with large pouch-like pitchers 

 distended in the middle. The colour of the pitchers is red- 



