PARROT PITCHERPLANT 
Sarracenia psittacina Michaux 
Parrot pitcherplant is a beautiful member of the bizarre group to 
which it belongs. The Pitcherplant Family consists of only three 
geneta and about ten species, all American. The true pitcherplants 
ate all natives of the eastern United States, but one of their relatives 
gtows in the mountains of California, and the other still farther 
away, in the mountains of Guiana. Our pitcherplants inhabit peat 
bogs, and they may be grown easily in the hot-house in a mixture 
of peat and sand. The pot should be placed inside a larger one, and 
the space between should be stuffed with peat moss, thus imitating 
the natural conditions of soil and moistute. 
The partot pitcherplant is one of the many interesting plants © 
which are found on our southeastern Coastal Plain. It ranges from 
Florida to Georgia and Alabama. 
The specimen sketched was grown in the greenhouses of the 
Department of Agriculture in Washington. 
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