ORDER 11. THE POPPY WORTS. 150 



Herbs aquatic, in bogs, with fibrous roots, and with the 

 'caves all radical, urn-shaped, hollow, and large flowers on scapes; 

 aepals 5, with 3 little bracts at base ; petals 5, clawed, incurved ; 

 stamens hypogynous ; ovary 5-celled, with a single style, the 

 stigma very broad, peltate, and 5-angled, crowning, in fruit, the 

 capsule, which is 5-celled and full of minute, albuminous seeds. 



SARRACE'NIA. Pitcher-plant. Trumpet-leaf. 



Character essentially as expressed in the order. Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, are 

 nrobably varieties, not species. 



I Leaf-blade inflected over the throat of the tube ... .7, 8 



II Leaf-blade erect, cr nearly erect; throat of the tube open. , i 



a Leaf-tube pitcher-shaped, with a broad wing.... 1-3 

 a Leaf-tube trumpet-shaped, with a narrow wins:.... 4-6 



S. purpu'rea. Purple Pitcher-plant. Flowers purple. Leaves all inflated alike, 



<i<irk green with purple veins, 6-9' long. Scapes 1-flowered, l-2f. high. June. 



<t S. Ueterophyl'la. Yellow Pitcher-plant. Fls. yellow. Lvs. pale, the outer slenda- Jn. r. 



3. ala'ta. Narrow-winged P. Fls. yellow. Lvs. all more slender than in No. 1. S.-W. 



4 S. (Grbno'vii) flava. Yellow Trumpet-leaf. Flowers yellow. Leaves 18-36' 



high, all yellowish green, veins not purple. 



5 S. rubra. Red Trumpet-leaf. Fls. reddish purple. Lvs. (l-2f.) purple-veined. S. 

 o S. Drummondii. LrummoncFsT. Fls. purple. Lvs.(18-86') mottled with colors. S. 



7 S. psittaoina. Parrot's Pitcher-plant. Fls. purple. Lvs. (8-5') spotless, hooded. S. 

 t S. variolaris. Mottled P. Flowers yellow. Lvs. (12-18') spotted with white. S 



ORDER XI. PAPAVERACE^E. The Poppyworts. 



//>/&*, generally with a colored juice, with alternate leaves ; 



jiMcers on long peduncles, solitary, never blue ; 



sepals 2 or 3, falling off when the flower expands ; 



petals generally 4, sometimes 8 ; stamens 4, 8, 12, 16, or 20, &c. ; 



stigma* 2, or if more, star-like on the flat apex of the compound ovary ; 



fruit a pod-shaped or roundish capsule ; seeds numerous and minute. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



1 Plants with a yellow juice. Petals yellow, crumpled in bud.... a 



a Stigmas and placentae 3, 4, or 6. Capsule ovoid c 



a Stigmas and placenta? 2 only. Capsule long, pod shaped b 



