BLUE AND PURPLE GROUP 



high. Leaves, alternate, obovate, broader at apex, with toothed 

 and wavy margin, fleshy. July to September. 



Not pretty. A fleshy plant with large display of foliage 

 and small flowers. Growing in thick masses along the 

 coast and the shores of the Great Lakes. 



Toothwort 

 Dent aria lacitiiata. — Family, Mustard. Color, white or pale pur- 

 ple. (See White Flowers, p. 80.) 



Slender Toothwort 



D. heterophylla. — Color of petals and sepals, purple. Flowers, 

 terminating a slender scape, 10 to 14 inches high, rather widely 

 scattered, followed by pods 1 inch long, linear, tipped with the 

 style. Leaves, of two sorts, those from the base on long petioles, 

 3 -divided, the divisions wavy-toothed; those on the stem 2, op- 

 posite, petioled, 3 -divided, the segments very narrow, few- 

 toothed. April and May. 



In low, moist woods from New Jersey and Pennsylvania 

 southward in the mountains to Georgia and Tennessee. 



Pitcher-plant. Side-saddle Flower. Huntsman's Cup 



Sarracenia purpurea. — Family, Pitcher - plant. Color, deep, 

 dull purple, with a prominent, greenish yellow style. Sepals, 5, 

 colored, with 3 bractlets underneath. Petals, 5, arched, broad 

 above, narrow below, fiddle-shape. Stamens, numerous. Flow- 

 ers, single, nodding on scapes about 1 foot tall. A large, round 

 ovary in the middle of the flower is tipped with a greenish yellow 

 style, expanded into a 5-rayed, umbrella-shaped body, terminat- 

 ing in hooked stigmas. Leaves, from the root, hollow, pitcher- 

 shaped, hooded, striped with purple. They hold water, in which 

 insects are drowned. Bristles pointing downward on the inner 

 surface prevent an insect which has fallen in from escaping. June. 



This plant is carnivorous, the drowned insects being ap- 

 propriated as food. I have found the pitcher-plant in great 

 numbers, from the most tiny to very large, in marshy land 

 by the side of railroads, generally with many remains of 

 drowned insects in the leaf-cups. Taken up by the roots 

 and placed in water, it makes a veranda ornament that will 

 keep fresh a long time. In peat-bogs, along the shore, to 

 Florida and Kentucky, also in the Lake region. 



In Virginia and southward a larger pitcher-plant is found, 

 with leaves sometimes 3 feet long. It is called trumpets (Sar- 

 racenia flava), with a large, drooping, yellow flower. The 



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