Darlingtonia. SAllllACKXIACE.E. 



swamps, S. W. Georgia and ailjaccnt Florida, at Apalarliioola. &c., firnt made kn 

 foliage coll. by Drummoinl and flowers tiy (.'/nijiman. 



* * Petals and wliole flower yellow : leaves with elongated pitchors or tubes, in 8. 

 called Tbitmpets or Tuumpet-i-kak, and the flowers \Vatciie.s! 



S. variolaris, Miciix. Leaves ;i to 14 (rarely 20) inches high ; the tnhe njirrowly or rather 

 broadly winged, dorsally reticulate-variegated at and U-low the summit witli -jv-u and 

 purplish veining on a yellowish white translucent ground ; the ovate furnit:i' I 



over the wide open orifice, puberulent and jmrple-veiny within ; mouili i.f tl 

 of the wing for a time lie<lewcd with a sweet alluring Becretion: phvllodial hi U 



haidly any : petals an inch or more long, little accrescent after anthejiis. — VI. i. 310; Sims 

 Bot. Mag t. 1710; Kll. Sk. ii. 11 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 80:3; Croom, 1. c. 102; Torr. & (Jrav] 



1. c. ; Mellichamp. Nature, x. 2.53; A. DC. 1. c. 6.^ ? S. minor, Walt. Car. 1.53. .S'. aduuca, 

 Smith, Exot. Bot. i. 103, t. 53; Macbridc, Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 48. — I.,<jw pine-barrens, 

 N. Carolina to Florida in the low country.'^ 



S. flava, L. Narrowly trumpet-shaped leaves about 2 feet long; pitcher Itordered with vc-ry 

 narrow wing, yellowish green, unspotted ; hood ovate and soon erect, with (often reddish) 

 base contracted or recurvcil at sides, hispidulous-puberulent within, commonly with purple 

 reticulated veinlets; autumnal pliyllodial leaves oblong or laricecdate and falcate, a sj>:ui or 

 two long; petals at first inch and a h.alf long, becoming pendulous, elongating to 2.J or 3 

 inches. — Spec. i. 510; Walt. Car. 153; Michx. 1. c. ; Audr. Bot. liep. t. 381 ; Sims, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 780; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1937 ; Ell. Sk. ii. 10 ; Crooni, 1. c. 103 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; 

 I'lanchon, 1. c. t. 1068 ; A. DC. 1. c.» S. Cateslxei, Ell. Sk. ii. II, greener form. S. Gnmoni, 

 Wood, 1. c. — Wet meadows and swamps, North Carolina to Florida ; fl. spring and early 

 summer. 



2. DARLING-TONIA, Torr. (Dr. Wot. Darlington of Pennsylvania, 

 author of Flora Cestrica, &c.) — Smiths. Contrib. vi. 4, t. 12, Bot. Wilkes 

 Exped. 221, & Bull. Torr. Club, ii. 14; Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xvi. 42.5, 

 XXXV. 136; Beuth. & Hook. Gen. i. 48 ; Planchon, Fl. Serres, xiv. 125, t. 1440; 

 Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5920 ; A. DC. Prodr. xvii. 2 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif. 

 i. 17. — Single species. 



D. Calif ornica, Torr. U. cc. Bootstock elongated and creeping, rough-scaly : leaves (a span 

 to 2 feet long) greenish yellow, of uervose tubes gradually enlarging upward and with 

 dilated and inflated-saccate externally white-variegated incurved summit, so that the con- 

 tracted orifice looks downward, its proper ape.x bearing a conspicuous divergently bifid 

 pendulous appendage resembling a fish-tail and generally reddish or yellowish; the whole 

 leaf twisted half round, the orifice becoming averse from the scape, ventral wing a narrow 

 border: scape bearing several greenish and membranaceous alternate bract«, nodding .at 

 apex, greenish, at length 2 inches long : petals greenish yellow and reddish brown or purple. 

 — Mountain bogs of the Sierra Nevada, California, at 1,000 to 6.000 feet, from Trmkee P.-vss 

 to Shasta Co. (where first coll. without flowers, h\ Pirkcrlnrj and Bnirkcnrldgr) ; also «itliin 

 the borders of Oregon, Waldo Co., IJowell : fl. spring. Areolation of the infl.ited h.M.ded 

 summit of the leaf translucent; appendage within beset v*ith retrorse bristly hairs, and 

 along its margins producing a sweet alluring .secretion, which sometimes extends downwnni 

 on the edge of the ^s^ng, as discovered by J/rs. R. M. Austin. For details of mode of 

 capturing insects, see Cauby, Proc. Am. Ass. Sci. 1874, pt. 2, 64, and abstract in Brew. & 

 Wats. 1. c. 18. 



• Meehan's Monthly, iv. 1, t. 1. 



* Some striking variations are noted by Miss Mary F. Peirce, Bull. T"" ' ''•' 

 8 Meehan's Monthly, ii. 113, t. 8. 



