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XXXV. SARRACENlACEiE (Pitchee-plant Family). 

 Bog plants with hollow pitoher-shaped or trumpet-shaped leaves. 



1. SARRACilNIA. 



Sepals 5, persistent, colored, with 3 braetlets at the base; petals 5, 

 incurved, deciduous; stamens numerous, hypogeno us ; ovary 5-celled 

 with a short style expanded above into a peculiar 5-rayed umbrella- 

 shaped body, the rays terminating beneath as many stigmas. 

 Yellowish or purpUsh perennials with hoUow leaves and large, 

 solitary, nodding flowers on a long naked scape. 



1. S. purpurea, L. Pitchee-Plant. 



Leaves pitcher-shaped, broadly winged on one side, with a one-sided, 

 erect hood at the top which is beset with bristles pointing downward. Con- 

 spicuous bog plants with greenish purple flowers. Bogs, Man.-Alta., very 

 local. 



XXXVI. DROSERACE.ffi; (Sundew Family). 



Herbs with regrular hypogenous flowers; calyx and corolla each of 

 5 parts, persistent; stamens 5, anthers fastened by the middle; 

 leaves in bud rolled from apex to base, when open covered with 

 glandular hairs each with a small di'op of mucilaginous secretion at 

 the tip. A small and peculiar family of insectivorous bog plants. 



1. DROSERA. StjNDEW. 



Stamens 5; styles 3 or 5, forked so as to appear hke 6 or 10. 

 Low perennials with reddish succulent leaves and flowers on a naked 

 scape in a 1-sided raceme, or solitary. 



1. D. rotundifdlia, L. Round-leaved Sundew. 



Leaves round or broader than long; flowers white or pinkish. Peat bogs, 

 N. Man.-Alta. 



2. D. inglica, Huds. 



Leaves erect, spatulate to linear; scape li-3 in. high, 1-8-flowered; 

 flowers white. (D. longifolia, L. in part.) Cold bogs, N. Man.-Alta. 



3. D. linearis, Goldie. 



Leaves linear, erect, petioles naked; scape 1-4 in. high, 1-8-flowered; 

 flowers white or pink. Cold bogs, N. Man.-Alta. 



