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rosette of basal leaves transformed into hollow bent-pitcher 

 shaped structures, beset on the inside with downward point- 

 ing hairs. Its solitary reddish or tawny-yellow flower is at 

 the end of a single stalk, and is apparently inverted. The 

 Sundews are pinkish, low, plants covered with glistening 

 sticky hairs, and have white flowers in small terminal clus- 

 ters. Our insect catching plants may be distinguished : 

 Leaves hollow, shaped Hke a bent pitcher ; flower solitary, ter- 

 minal, red or yellowish Pitcher Plant no. 489 



Leaves not hollow, covered with glistening sticky hairs; flowers 

 in clusters, white 



Leaves roundish Sundew no. 490 



Leaves thread-like Sundew no. 491 



489. Pitcher Plant. Sarracenia purpurea. A bog plant with 

 a rosette of hollow leaves, shaped like bent pitchers. Pitchers 

 purple veined, 3-6 in. long, about ^4 as wide, fringed on the 

 inside with downward pointing hairs, and usually partly filled 

 with water and insect remains. Flower solitary, nodding, 

 reddish-purple, or yellowish, its stalk 1-2 ft. tall. Labrador 

 to Florida, and westward. June. Fig. 489. 



490. Sundew. Droscra rotund if olia. A slender, nearly always 

 reddish plant, glistening in the sun, because of its covering 

 of sticky hairs. Leaves all basal, round above, narrowed into 

 slender stalks. Flowers white, in a slender terminal raceme. 

 In bogs, or wet sand. Newfoundland to Florida, and west- 

 ward. July. Fig. 490. There are many leaf forms, some club- 

 shaped, but the typical form always has round leaves. 



