Sarkacenia. SARRACENIACE^. 41 



Order IX. SARRACENIACEvE. De la Pylaie. The Sarracenia Tribe. 



Floral envelopes consisting of 4 - 10 leaflets ; the exterior more or less herbaceous 

 and sepaloid. Stamens numerous : anthers more or less versatile, introrse. 

 Ovary 3 - 5-celled, with the placentae in the axis : ovules numerous, anatropous : 

 style distinct, single, truncate, with a minute stigma ; or expanded into a large 

 foliaceous peltate stigma. Capsule 3 — 5-celled; the dehiscence loculicidal ; 

 placentiB projecting from the axis into the cells. Seeds obovoid, numerous, 

 with a minute cylindrical embryo next the hilum, and copious albumen. — 

 Perennial herbs, growing in marshes. Leaves all radical ; the petiole large 

 and hollow, pitcher or trumpet-shaped ; the lamina small and resembling a lid, 

 but not closing the orifice. Scapes one- or several-flowered ; flowers large, 

 nodding, 



1. SARRACENIA. Tourn.; Croom in ann. lye. New-York, i. p. 98; Endl. gen. 5023. 



SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. 



[In honor of Dr. Sarrazin, a French physician, who resided in Quebec. He sent the plant to Tourncfort, who named 

 it Sarracena : since altered to Sarracenia. Sec Tourn. inst. ed. 3. p. 657. t. 476.] 



Sepals 5, persistent, with 3 small bracts at the base. Petals 5. Stigma very large, peltate, 

 5-anglcd, covering the 5-celled ovary. Capsule 5-cellcd. — Flowers solitary, on a long 

 naked scape. Leaves with a longitudinal wing on the inner side of the tube. 



1. Sarracenia purpurea, Linn. Common Side-saddle Flower. 



Leaves ascending, arched, the tube inflated, gibbous, with a very broad wing; lamina 

 erect, cordate, hairy within; flower purple. — B. S. Bart. elem. hot. t. 1.; MicJix. Jl. 1. 

 p. 310 ; Bot. mag. t. 849 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 9 ; Bigel. Jl. Bost. p. 213 ; Hook. jl. Bor.-Am. 1. 

 p. 33 ,• De la Pyl. in ann. Linn. soc. Par. 6. p. 388. t. 13 ; Croom, I. c p. 98 ; Torr. ^ Gr. 

 fi. N. Am. I. p. 59. 



var. hcterophjUa : jlowers ocliroleucous. S. purpurea, /3. Torr. comjycad. p. 211. S. 

 heterophylla. Eat. man. ed. 4. (1822), p. 447. 



Rliizoma 2-4 inches long, somewhat woody, yellowish within, throwing off numerous 

 brown fibres. Leaves of a yellowish green color, alternate, several of the lowest ones reduced 

 to sheathing scales : the petiole 3-6 inches long, tapering at the base, Iwllow and swollen 

 upwards into a large pitcher- or cwcr-shapcd cavity, capable of holding several ounces of 

 water, the mouth contracted ; the wing 3-7 lines wide in the middle ; lamina 1-2 inches 

 in diameter, coarsely reticulated with purplish veins, the inner surface covered with short stiff 

 hairs pointing downward. Inner surface of ihc tube from the orifice to near the middle, 



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