SAREAORNIA 



POPPY OBDEB 



SAEEACENIA 189 



more or less bristly hairs. These point downwards like so many miniature 

 bayonets, and are supposed to prevent the exit of insects which find their way 

 unimpeded to the bottom of the pitcher. The top of the latter is furnished 

 with a strong rim, and is also provided with downward pointing bristly hairs 

 so that the leaves are veritable death traps to the insects which frequent them 

 for the sugary secretion which is exuded on the inner surface. Sometimes 

 the pitchers become almost or quite filled with the dead and decaying bodies 

 of the insects. 



The flowers are few or solitary, and nodding. Sepals 4-5, free, hypogy- 

 nous. Petals usually 5, free, hypogynous, but absent in the genus Heliamphora. 

 Stamens numerous, hypogynous. Ovary free, 3-5-celled. Style simple, with 

 an entire, lobed, or shield-lil^e apex. 



SARRACENIA. — This genus is 

 known under such popular names as 

 ' Indian Cup,' ' Pitcher Plant,' ' Side- 

 Saddle Flower,' and ' Trumpet Leaf,' all 

 more or less appropriate. It contains a 

 few species of half-hardy herbaceous 

 perennials with trumpet-like or tubular 

 leaves as described above, and flowers 

 borne singly at the top of a scape. Sepals 

 5, spreading. Petals 5, united. Ovary 

 5-lobed, 5-celled. The style is remarkable 

 owing to the fact that it is dilated into a 

 broad peltate 5-angled, umbreUa-like disk, 

 with 5 radiating nerves, the tips of which 

 constitute the stigmatic surface where it 

 is necessary to place the pollen for the 

 fertilisation of the ovules and the develop- 

 ment of seeds. 



Culture and Propagation. — Most Sar- 

 racenias unfortunately are too tender to 

 be grown out of doors succes^Uy in the 

 British Islands. The kind mentioned 

 below is the best for this purpose. It 

 enjoys a marshy spot not too much ex- 

 posed to hot simshine. A damp peaty 

 soil in the rock garden wiU suit it admir- 

 ably, and the addition of Sphagnum 

 moss will also be beneficial. It wiU 

 retain moisture and prevent evaporation 



from the soil in summer, if placed around 

 the plants. To allow the soil to become 

 dry is almost fatal to the plants. As they 

 do not grow very quickly it is rather 

 risky to attempt to increase them by 

 division until good-sized clumps have 

 been attained. If seeds can be obtained 

 they may be sown under glass in moist 

 peaty soil as soon as ripe, and the plants 

 may be grown on in pots until they are 

 sufficiently large and sturdy enough for 

 the open air. 



S. purpurea (Huntsman's Cup). — A 

 beautiful North American species with 

 blood-red horn-like leaves 4-6 in. long, 

 inflated in the middle, contracted at the 

 mouth, and surmounted with an erect 

 kidney-shaped lid, hairy within and netted 

 with purple veins. The purple flowers 

 are borne in early summer, on scapes 

 about a foot high. 



There are many other kinds of Sarra- 

 cenias, but they are all too tender for the 

 open air. A large number of hybrids 

 have been raised, and these surpass in 

 beauty and vigour the natural species. 

 Most of them may be seen in the green- 

 houses in the Eoyal Gardens, Kew. 



Culture Ac. as- above. 



IX. PAPAVERACEiE— Poppy Order 



Smooth and often glaucescent, or hairy annual or perennial herbaceous 

 plants (rarely shrubs), often with a milky juice. Leaves alternate, entire, or 

 lobed and cut without stipules. Howers regular, usually nodding in bud, and 

 borne singly on long stalks. Sepals 2, or 3, rarely 4, free, imbricate, 

 caducous. Petals 4-6 rarely 8-12, hypogynous, free, in 2 or 3 series 

 imbricated and often crumpled, deciduous. Stamens numerous, hypogynous, 



