SARRACENIACICyK. (I'lTCIIKU-l'LANT FAMILY.) o7 



surpassing the disk-like 8 -24-raved sessile stijjma. Fruit ovoid, naked, usually 

 ripening above water. Aril none. — Leaves with a deep sinus at the base. 

 Flowers yellow or sometimes tinged with jiuryjle, produced all summer. 

 (Noixpap of Dioseorides, from the Kgyjitian name.) — Our various forms seem 

 to iuelude only two species. 



1. N. advena, Ait. (Common- Y.) Sr/xils G, unrt/itd/ ; pdah shorter 

 than the sttimeiis and resembling them, thick and fleshy, truncate'; stigma 12- 

 24-rayed ; ovary and fruit not contracted into a narrow neck under the stigma; 

 tliin submersed leaves seldom appearing ; floating or emersed and erect leaves 

 thick, varying from roundish to ovate or almost oblong in outline, the sinus 

 open, or (var. VARiKf;.\TrM, Eiigelm., flower often partly purplish) closed or 

 narrow. — Very common, in still or stagnant water. 



2. N. Itlteum, Smith. (Sm.\ller V.) .SV/in/s 5, near/ij equal; petnls 

 longer and dilated upwards; stigma 12-16-rayed; fruit globular, with a short 

 narrow neck ; earlier and submersed leaves very thin and delicate, roundish, 

 the floating ones oval and usually with a narrow or closed sinus. — The only 

 specimen seen like the Euroijcan (expanded flowcV fully 2' across) is from 

 " Mauayunk, 7 miles from Philadelphia," in herb. Collins, now Durnnd. (Eu.) 



Var. ptimiluin. (Sm.\i,l Y.) Flower 5' - 1' across when outspread ; 

 leaves 1'- 5' long. (N. ])umilum, //o/yje. N. Kalmikna, P«/-.v/i.) — Ponds, N. 

 England to Penn. and northward. (Eu.) 



N. rOLTSEP.\LfM, Engelm., with very Uirgc flowers and numerous sepals, 

 occurs far west. 



N. SAGiTTiFOLiA, Pursli, of N. Carolina and southward, has narrow and 

 long leaves. Both poriiaps run into No. 1. 



OnDF.R 7. SAKKACENIACE.i:. (Pitciier-Plaxts.) 



Pohjnndrous and hiipngijuous horj-plants, with hollow jnlcher-fonn or 

 trumpet-shaped leaven, — comprising one plant in the mountains of Gui- 

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

 in the Atlantic United States. 



1. SARRACENIA, Toum. Side-saddle Flower. 



Sepals 5, with .1 bn.ctlets at the base, colored, persistent. Petals 5, oblonfj 

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

 conii)ound, 5-celled, globose, crowned with a short style, which is expanded at 

 the summit into a very broad and petal-like, ."i-angled, 5-rayed, umbrella-shaped 

 body ; the 5 delicate rays terminating uiuler the angles in as many little hooketl 

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

 in the axis, 5-valved. Seeds anatropous, with a small embryo at the l)ase 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-flowercd : flower nodding. (Named 1)\ Tournelbrt in honor of 

 Dr. Sarrazin of Quebec, who flrst sent our Northern species, and a botanical 

 account of it, to Europe.) 



