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SARRACENIA PURPUREA. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA MONOG Y NIA. 
This very singular plant is a native of 
North America, in bogs and swamps. It 
has been long known in this country, hav- 
ing been cultivated before the year 1640, 
by Tradescant, who was gardener to King 
Charles the First. 
It seldom, however, lives very long here; 
as it is found difficult to suit it with a cli- 
mate and situation, like those which it 
occupies in its native places of growth. It 
will succeed pretty well for two or three 
years in black peat earth, in a pot set into 
a pan of water; after that time it is very 
apt to dwindle gradually away: probably it 
would do better at the edge of a pond, 
where the roots could always reach the wa- 
ter. It may be propagated, though but 
seldom, by dividing the root. The hollow 
of the leaf is sometimes large enough to 
contain half a pint of water. 
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