FAM. 80, 81. 61 



cent inside, with deflexed hairs; scapes erect, naked; flowers 

 showy, solitary; calyx subtended by 3 bracts; sepals 5, 

 persistent; petals 5, deciduous; stamens numerous, with 

 very short filaments and introrse anthers; ovary 3-5 celled, 

 superior; styles united into a 5-angled peltate body, the 

 projections recurved bearing the minute stigmas beneath; 

 fruit a 5-valved capsule. 



Low pine-land or sphagnum-swamps. Spring. 



Sarracenia, Pitcher-plant or Trumpet-leaf 



1. Flowers yellow; — leaves erect, broadly winged, upper part with green 

 and purple veins and white or yellowish blotches; lamina arching 

 over the orifice of the tube, ----- S. minor (variolaris) 



1. Flowers reddish brown. ---------- 2 



2. Leaves decumbent, tube club-shaped, broadly winged, upper part 



with white spots and purple veins; lamina incurved, inflated, 

 subglobose. almost closing the tube. - S. psittacina 



2. Leaves ascending, tube inflated, broadly winged, upper part purple- 



:.ed; lamina erect, reniform. - - - - - - S. purpurea 



80. Sedaceae (Crassulaceae), Orpine Family. 

 Mostly succulent herbs with exstipulate, thick leaves; 

 flowers perfect or dioecious, in cymes or panicles, or soli- 

 tary; sepals 4-5, or more or less; corolla of as many petals 

 as there are sepals, sometimes united or wanting; stamens 

 as many as petals or twice as many; ovary of as many 

 carpels as there are sepals, distinct or united below; fruit 

 a follicle. 



Bryophyllum pinnatum (calycinum). A fleshy plant with shrubby base, the op- 

 posite leaves sometimes pinnately compound; the perfect flowers in showy panicles; 

 the bladder-like calyx of 4 sepals; the reddish corolla with 4 spreading lobes. — Found 

 in waste places South, but here cultivated for the curious habit of the leaves sprouting 

 when placed on sand or pinned on the wall. 



Other cultivated plants of this family belong to the following genera: 



Sedum, Sloru-crop, polypetalous with sepals, petals and carpels 4 or 5, and 

 stamens twice as many. 



Sempervivum, House-leek, polypetalous, with sepals, petals and carpels 6-20, and 

 stamens twice as many. 



Crassula (Rochea) and Cotyledon (Echeveria), momopetalous, both with 5- 

 parted flowers, but the former with 5, the latter with 10 stamens. 



81. Penthoraceae, Virginia Stonecrop Family. 



Herbs with firm but not fleshy tissues; the erect stems 

 with alternate, thinnish, serrate leaves; flowers green- 

 ish in terminal cymes; sepals 5; petals 5, small or want- 

 ing; stamens 10, hypogynous, carpels 5, united below, fruit 

 a 5-celled capsule with the recurved styles persisting. 



Penthorum sedoides, Ditch Stonecrop. Stems erect with narrow bright green 



