Nat. Ord. Sarkaceniack. 



PITCHER PLANT. 



(SOLDIERS DRLXKIXG CUP.) 



Sarraccnia purpurea. 



VEX tlic most casual observer can hardly pass a bed of these 

 most remarkable plants without being struck by their 

 appearance, indeed, from root to flower, it is every way 

 worthv of our notice and admiration. 



The Pitcher Plant is by no means one of those flowers found 

 singly and in inaccessible bogs and dense cedar-swamps, as are 

 some of our rare and lovely Orchids. In almost any grassy swamp, 

 at the borders of low lying lakes, and beaver-meadows, often in 

 wet spongy meadows, it may be found forming large beds of 

 luxuriant growth. 



When wet with recent showers or glistening with dew-drops, 

 the rich crimson veinings of the broadly scalloped lip of the tubular 

 leaf (which is thickly beset w ith fine stiff silvery hairs,) retaining the 



moisture, shine and glisten in the sun-light. 



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