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GLEANINGS FROM N ATI' UK. 



Scattered through and over these mossy beds were 

 many trailing sterns of a slender shrub, bearing ob- 

 long, evergreen leaves about one-third of an inch in 

 length. Very handsome these shrubs were, and 

 interesting too, for on them grows that delicious and 



familiar fruit, the Ameri- 

 can Cranberry, Vaccin't am 

 macrocarpon Ait. Tlielter- 

 rics had been carefully 

 gleaned from the swamp, 

 but here and there the 

 bright cheek of one glist- 

 ened from its bed of green, 

 furnishing a natural con- 

 trast of color which would 

 entrance an artist's eye. 

 At intervals of a few 

 feet among the 

 thickest of the 

 tamaracks were 

 clumps of that 

 curious carniv- 

 orous growth, the 

 side-saddle flow- 

 er or pitcher- 

 plant, Sarracenia 



Fig. 38 Common Pitcher Plant. (After Bessey.) purpurea j. The 

 (One leaf cut across to show the cavity. One-third margin of its 



thick root loaves 



are united in such a way as to form hollow tubes 

 or "pitchers" with a rounded lid or lip at the top. 

 On the inner surface of this lip are numerous stiff' 



