

SARKAI EN] \ I I 





CLV. SARRACENIAI 



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Herb* iu pen nnial plants, living in bogs. B 



hollow urn-shaped petiole, at whose apex is articulati 1 the Ian... 

 Id. Scapes each having I or 

 Bowers, oi b more or less berbaceons colour, 

 or white. • alj \ . ;. broken-whorled, 



much imbricated, without a corolla ; or con- 

 • nt sepals, often having a 

 . . ■ 1 involucre on the outside, and ."> bypo- 

 gynous, unguiculate, conca> - mens 



is : anthers oblong, adnal . 

 irsting internally and longitudinally. 

 ■ lied, with polyspermous 

 placentae in the ax simple, tru: 



tpanded into a large peltate plate with 5 

 latic angles ; ovules anam>|>al. Ca] 

 with 2-5 ( - eds very numerous, minute, 



-lijlitlv warted or winged, covering I 

 placentae, which project from the axis into 

 die cavity oi the cells ; albumen abundant ; 

 embryo cylindrical, Kin:; near the base of the 

 i. with the radicle turned to the liiluni. 



i nua Sarracenia, inhabiting the bogs 

 ■ rth America, bears tl name of 



-saddle Flower, in allusion to the sin- 

 gular tubular leaves of itself and its ally, 

 rag as the former alone was known, 

 no clear idea could be forn nity, 



and a large peltate plate which termii 

 rtyle and I. avi - a stigma beneath i ach of 

 angles, was thought to be essentia] to the 

 r which it represents ; but the discovery 

 hi Guiana, by Sir K Schomburg very 



. ■ uus in which the stigma is reduced 

 truncated point, shows that opinion to 

 unfounded. The same fact also pr 

 thai tli<' floral ea\ subject to great 



ondition, consisting, in Sarra- 

 itself, of 5 sepals and 5 distinct p 

 bat reduced in rlehamphora to 4. .">, or perhaps 6, imbricati I in the 



if both calyx and corolla. This deviation from what ma} 

 structure ol the < Irder i> quite analogous to what occtu 

 nunculus may be compared to Sarracenia and Caltha to Heliam] 



■opposition that it is in the neighbourh 1 of the Ranal AUianc 



placed ; and in fact Poppyworts, which arc Ranals with 

 v"aqx-ls, must be taken a> the nearest connection of thi -■ singul 



The pitchers appear to be secreting . for they arc lin< 1 bj 



jular nature, as is mentioned in Mr. Bentham'a Memoir on Heliampfa 

 . but their phys i action remaii - 



lh' ,iv confined to the bogs f Nort 



amphora nutans, found in Guayana. 

 Their u>, a are unknown. 



(.I'M R \ 

 Sarraceiiia, L mm. | OoilopkyUum, Moris. \ I 



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Position.— Papavi races 



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