SARRACENIA RUBRA. 
RED-FLOWERED TRUMPET LEAF.—Watrer’s SARRACENIA. 
NATURAL ORDER, SARRACENIACE. 
SARRACENIA RUBRA, Walter.—Leaves elongated, erect, slender, narrowly winged, paler above, 
and reticulated with purple veins; lamina ovate, erect, beak-pointed, tomentose within; 
flowers reddish purple. Leaves ten to eighteen inches long, shorter than the scapes. 
(Chapman’s Flora of the Southern United States. See also Wood's Class- Book of Botany, 
under S. Gronovi?.) 
HIS species of the “Side-saddle flower” well illustrates a 
Z4A/ point often made, that names may be misleading, and 
fist names which have no particular meaning so far as the appli- 
cation to any character in the plant is concerned, are at least as 
good as any. This particular species was named by Thomas 
Walter, who published a history of the plants of the Carolinas in 
1788. As Sarracenia rubra, it is the red-flowered Sarracenia, 
naturally enough from Walter's name; but there are other Sar- 
racenias as “red” as this, and the collector of wild flowers must 
therefore remember when he reads of the “Red Sarracenia,” that 
it is merely “its name.” Still, as it is just as well to avoid mis- 
leading names, we propose to those who may wish a better name 
than the only one so far known for it, that it be called ‘Walter's 
Sarracenia.” 
The Sarracenias are so unlike most other plants, that the 
student is particularly interested in how they are made, and the 
especial reasons for their peculiar structure. While, as Percival 
says, generally 
“Tn flowers 
The serpent hides his venom, and the sting 
Of the dread insect lurks in fairest bowers,” 
the case is reversed here. There is no lurking of dread insects 
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