OiiDEli 11.— THE POPPYWORTS. 157 



Herbs aquatic, in bogs, with fibrous roots, and with the 

 leaves all radical, urn-shaped, hollow, and large flowers on scapes; 

 sejyals 5, with 3 little bracts at base ; petals 5, clawed, incurved ; 

 stamens hypogynous ; ovaj'y 5-celled, with a single style, the 

 stigma very broad, peltate, and 5-angled, crowning, in fruit, the 

 cajysule, which is 5-celled and full of minute, albuminous seeds. 



SAPvRACE'NIA. Pitcher-plant Trumpet-leaf. 



Character essentially as expressed in the order. Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, are 

 probably varieties, not species. 



Tf Leaf-blade inflected over the throat of the tube 7, 8 



1 Leaf-bhide erect, cr nearly erect ; throat of the tube open a 



a Leaf-tube pitcher-shaped, with a broad wing, . . ,1-3 

 a Leaf-tube trumpet-shaped, with a narrow wing 4-6 



1 S. purpu'rea. Purple Pitcher-plant. Flowers purple. Leaves all inflated alike, 



dark green with purple veins, G-O' long. Scapes 1-flowered, l-2f. high. June. 



2 S. heteTophyl'la.. Yellow Pitcher-plant. Fls. yellow, Lvs, pale, the outer slender, Jn.r. 

 I S. ala'ta. JSan'Ozv-win^ed P. Fls. yoWow. Lvs. all more slender than in No. 1. S.-W. 



4 S. (G-rono'vii) flava. Yelloiu Trvmpet-leaf. Flowers yellow. Leaves 18-36' 



high, all yellowish green, veins not purple. 



5 S. rubra. lied Trumpet-leaf. Fls. reddish purple. Lvs, (l-2f.) purple-veined. S. 



6 S. Drununondii. Drummond^sT. Fls. purple. Lvs.(lS-S6') mottled with colors. S. 



7 S. psittacina. Parrof 8 Pitchei'-plant. Fls. purple. Lvs. (3-5'') spotless, liooded. S. 



8 S. variolaris. Mottled P. Flowers yellow. Lvs. (12-18') spotted with white. S. 



Order XI. PAPAVERACEJE. The Poppyworts. 



Uerhs^ generally with a colored juice, with alternate leaves ; 



flowers on long peduncles, solitary, never blue ; 



sepals 2 or 3, falling off when the flower expands ; 



2)etals generally 4, sometimes 8 ; stamens 4, 8, 12, 16, or 20, &c. ; 



stigmas 2, or if more, star-like on the flat apex of the compound ovary ; 



fruit a pod-shaped or roundish capsule ; seeds numerous and minute. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



Ti Plants with a yellow juice. Petals yellow, crumpled in bud a 



a Stigmas and placentae 3, 4, or 6. Capsule ovoid c 



a Stigmas and placentae 2 only. Capsule long, pod-shaped. . . .b 



