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ORDER 7. SARBACENlXCE^J. (PITCHER-PLANTS.) 



Po^yandrous and hypogynous bog-plants, with hollow pitcher-form or 

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

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

 in the Atlantic United States. 



1. SABRACENIA, Tourn. SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. 



Sepals 5, with 3 bractlets at the base, colored, persistent. Petals 5, oblong 

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

 compound, 5-celled, globose, crowned with a short style, which is expanded at 

 the summit into a very broad and petal-like, 5-aiigled, 5-rayed, umbrella-shaped 

 body , the 5 delicate rays terminating under the angles in as many little hooked 

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

 in the axis, loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds auatropous, with a small embryo at 

 the base 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 -flowered ; flower nodding. (Named by Tournefort 

 in honor of Dr. Sarrasin of Quebec, who first sent our Northern species, and a 

 botanical account of it, to Europe.) 



1. S. purptirea, L. (SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. PITCHER-PLANT. HUNTS- 

 MAN'S CUP.) Leaves pitcher-shaped, ascending, curved, broadly winged ; the 

 hood erect, open, round heart-shaped ; flower deep purple ; the fiddle-shaped 

 petals arched over the greenish-yellow style. Varies rarely with greenish- 

 yellow flowers, and without purple veins in the foliage. Peat-bogs ; common 

 from N Eng. to Minn., N. E. Iowa, and southward east of the Alleghanies. 

 June. The curious leaves are usually half filled with water and drowned in- 

 sects. The inner face of the hood is clothed with stiff bristles pointing down- 

 ward. Flower globose, nodding on a scape a foot high , it is difficult to faucy 

 any resemblance between its shape and a side-saddle, but it is not very unlike 

 a pillion. 



2. S. fl&va, L. (TRUMPETS.) Leaves long (1-3) and trumpet-shaped, 

 erect, with an open mouth, the erect hood rounded, narrow at the base ; wing 

 almost none ; flower yellow, the petals becoming long and drooping. Bogs, 

 Va and southward. April. 



ORDER 8. PAPAVEKACEJE. (POPPY FAMILY.) 



Herbs with milky or colored juice, regular flowers with the parts in twos 

 or fours, fugacious sepals, polyandrous, hypogynous, the ovary 1-celled with 

 two or more parietal placentae. Sepals 2, rarely 3, falling when the flower 

 expands. Petals 4-12, spreading, imbricated and often crumpled in the 

 bud, early deciduous. Stamens rarely as few as 16, distinct. Fruit a dry 

 1-celled pod (in the Poppy imperfectly many-celled, in Glaucium 2-celled). 

 Seeds numerous, anatropous, often crested, with a minute embryo at the 

 base of fleshy and oily albumen. Leaves alternate, without stipules. 

 Peduncles mostly 1 -flowered. Juice narcotic or acrid. 



