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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



would soon evaporate and leave nothing to prevent their 

 winged visitors from going in and out at will. Therefore, 

 these two members of the same family with the same carni- 

 vorous traits have leaves or traps that are very different, One 

 holds its victims by means of a trick while the other makes use 

 of a more open plan, yet the result is the same, as an exam- 

 ination of the pitchers or trumpets will prove. Although it is 

 sometimes stated that the closed trumpets are always found 

 with water in them, I have not found it to be so, though there 

 is probably sufficient moisture in the tube to aid in the decom- 

 position of the insects. 



I found the spotted trumpet leaf in full bloom early in 

 April, the large drooping yellow flowers rising on long stems 

 from near the base of the leaves, usually one or two in num- 

 ber. The flowers are attractive even after the petals have fal- 

 len, as they then show the little inverted umbrellas of the style. 

 With the trumpets were hundreds of beautiful pogonias also in 

 bloom, the flowers larger and with more on a stalk than are 

 usually found on the same species in northern bogs. 



After the almost daily botanizing trips of a winter and 

 spring in Florida, there are none I remember with more pleas- 

 ure than the few days spent among the little insect-catching 

 trumpets. 



SOMETHING ABOUT GOLDENRODS 



By Dr. W. W. Bailey. 



T"T THEN the botanist hears someone, as is often the case, 

 ^ ^ speak very definitely of the goldenrod, he is apt to 

 smile. The very greatest variet}^ prevails among the twenty- 

 five or more species inhabiting Xew England. Some, one 

 would hardly guess to be goldenrods at all so unlike are they 

 to the type generally accepted. 



