HOODED PITCHERPLANT 



Sarracenia minor Walter 



Hooded pitcherpknt has some distinctive features not shown by 

 most other members of the family. The hood is beautifully arched, 

 and tends to darken the interior cavity of the leaf Contrasting with 

 the opaque yellow-green of the surrounding leaf structure, the trans- 

 lucent patches near the summit of the hood are white, and act as 

 windows, transmitting light to the upper part of the "pitchers." In- 

 sects encouraged by the light to enter are often unable to find the 

 way out, and exhausted by their endeavors to escape, drop to the bot- 

 tom of the "pitcher," where they die and are digested for the use of 

 the plant. 



This is the southernmost in range of all the pitcherplants, occur- 

 ring in damp, acid meadows as far south as the middle of the Florida 

 peninsula, and ranging northward through eastern Georgia, but 

 barely entering Alabama and North Carolina. 



The sketch was made from plants collected near Beaufort, South 

 Carolina. 



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