Sarracenia. SARHACKNIACK.T:. 7.' 



diameter; margin repand ; stiginatic rays 11 to 14: fniit de|)resscd-ovatfi, 7 or 8 IIiiom iu 

 diameter, costate and moderately couslrictod beneath tlio dink ; seedH pale yeUowioli brown, 

 l\ lines in diameter. — Fl. ii. 370; DC. Syst. ii. 62 ; Kll. Sk. it ». N. smjiHifolium, Moron/;, 

 Rot. Gaz. xi. 169. N. loiujifolia, Smith in Kee.s, Cycl. no. 5. Niiuiphtca mgltti/oHa, Walt: 

 Car. IS.'J. N. sagittata, Per.s. Syn. ii. 63. iV. /oiigi/olia, iMichx. Fl. i. .•J12. — In Btagmint 

 pools of tlie low land."*, Nortli Carolina to Cicorgia and (acx. to Morong) Florida; al.so iu 

 S. Indiana and Illinois, Schncck ijide Watson & Coulter). 



Order VII. SARRACENIACEiE. 



Hv A. Gu.vY. 



Acaulesccnt perennial bog-plants, with colorless inert juirc, and leaves trans- 

 formed into more or less colored secretive pitchers or tubes (in whieli insects are 

 collected) ; the flowers hermaphrodite, hypogynous, polyandrous ; sepals and 

 petals each 5 and imbricated in the bud ; anthers fixed by the middle and ' 

 introrse; pistil compound, 3-5-celled, with many-ovuled plaeenti« iu the axis; 

 fruit a loculicidal capsule ; seed anatropous, with a small embryo at the base of 

 fleshy albumen. Flowers comparatively large, nodding. True affinity of the 

 order undetermined. Consists of a monotypic apetalous and tricarpellary genus 

 found on a single mountain in Eastern S. America, and of the following. 



1. SARRACENIA. Bractlets 3 under the calyx. Sepals eoriaceous, persi.stent. Petals 

 pauduriform, at first counivent-incnrved and imbricated over the stajnens and pistil, in age 

 becoming deciduous. Ovary globular and 5-lobed, the lobes alternate with the petals : style 

 bearing 5-angled 5-rayed umbrella, the tips of the slender rays projecting from the uotihe<l 

 angles, recurved and introrsely stigmatose. Capsiile densely vcrrucose, loiulicidal, but the 

 five valves cohering by the partitions with the axis. Seeds with a close and firm reticulate 

 coat and broad rhaphe. 



2. DARLINGTONIA. Sepals membranaceous and somewhat herbaceous, lax, niarcesdi.; 

 Petals shorter, somewhat convergent, oblong-ovate, with a contraction above the middle 

 and the apical portion concave, marcescent. Stamens 12 to 20, short. Ovary somewhat 

 turbinate with depressed or umbilicate broad summit, the cells opposite the petals: styl*^ 

 short, 5-cleft; its short and thick branches radiate-spreading: stigma broad and terminal 

 Capsule oblong, smooth, 5-valved, the valves septiferons: base of the colnmella naked. 

 Seeds clavate or turbinate, densely beset with short .stiff bristles. Scape bracteate. 



1. SARRAC^INIA, Tourn. Pitcher-plant, Side-sapdlr Flower, 

 Trumpets. {Dr. Sarrazin of Quebec, who about the year 1730 sent our 

 northern species and an account of it to Tournefort.) — Scape naked and one- 

 flowered with the cluster of radical leaves from a short horizontal roofstock ; the 

 pitchers trumpet-shaped with a ventral wing or salient margin and an arching 

 hood (the lamina) at apex, some earlier leaves phyllodi:i-like, destitute of pitcher, 

 all yellowish green or purplish, or purple-veined. Pet;ds pui-jjle or yellow. Fl. 

 early summer or southward in spring. Species all strictly Atlantic X. American. 

 — Inst. 657, t. 476, & L. Gen. ed. 1-5, as Sarracena ; L. Spec. i. .'ilO, & Gen. 

 ed. 6, no. 652 ; Mill. Ic. t. 241 ; Croom, Ann. Lye. N. Y. iv. 98 ; A. DC. Prodr. 

 xvii. 3. CoilophifUum, Morison, PI. O.von. iii. 533. For account of the relation 

 of the pitchers to insects and references to the literature, s«'e Goodale, Physiol. 

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