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THE AMATETJE's GEEENHOTTSE 



dish, sliadlng to dull green. The flowers are a fine red colour. 

 This is the easiest to obtain, and the hardiest of them all. In 

 a sheltered position in a bog it would live through the year in 

 any part of England. 



S. variolaris has the lid of the pitcher bent over the mouth 

 of the tube in a manner dilFerent to all the rest. It is a 

 beautiful variety, of large growth, and has yellow flowers. 

 The lid of the pitcher is purplish red, spotted with white. 



S. psittacina is a miniature, with small pitchers which 

 spread horizontally, with a kind of inverted hood for a lid. 

 The appearance of a perfect pitcher of this is that of a parrot's 

 head reversed, as when a parrot suspends itself head down- 

 wards from its perch. The pitchers are dull red, spotted with 

 white, and the flowers are deep sanguineous red. 



Darlingtonia Californica is an interesting alliance of the 

 Sarracenias. It has a curious pitcher, the lid of which forms 

 a perfect hood, from the inner edge of which the true leaf is 

 produced. The hood is usually so placed as to completely ex- 

 clude rain, yet moisture and dead flies are commonly found in 

 the pitchers. 



CEPHAXOirS rOLLICiriAEIS. 



The Australian pitcher plant Cephalotus foUicularis is a 

 native of the swampy lands of the south-west of Australia, 

 more especially in the neighbourhood of King George's Sound 



