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FLORA AND SYLVA 
moss. [Bot. Mag., t. 849.) A very rude but 
characteristic woodcut, and description of S. 
purpurea or "Hollow Leaved Lavender" is 
given on p. 54 of John Josselyn's "New Eng- 
land's Rarities," a scarce little octavo, which 
may be seen in the Library of the Natural 
History (Botany) Department, at South Ken- 
sington. Its date is 1672. A very distinct 
and handsome variety of this plant, recently 
introduced by Mr. Bruce, is known as pur- 
purea Chorltonii. In it the pitchers are much 
larger than is common, apple-green in colour 
netted with bright crimson veins and covered 
with long silky hairs. 
Red-Flowered Trumpet-Leaf [S. rubra). 
— A slender plant 3 to 12 inches high, with 
red or crimson flowers smaller than those of S. 
purpurea and very fragrant. The leaves are 
green with red veins on the narrow pointed 
lids. It is the least ornamental of the species. 
(Loddige's Bot. Cab. 1163.) Two varieties 
have been described — acuminata, with erect 
red-veined leaves netted with crimson, and in 
which the lids are richly coloured, larger than 
the top of the pitcher, and remarkable for 
bearing two long tails ; and rubra Sweetii, also 
known as the little S. minor of Sweet, but 
really a small form of this species though by 
some authors referred to S. variolaris. The 
fact is that there are "minor" varieties not 
only of both these, but of all the wild species. 
S. Rugelii= S. Jiava, var. 
Spotted Trumpet-Leaf [S. variolaris). — 
Leaves erect 6 to 12 inches high, trumpet- 
shaped,winged,and spotted with white towards 
themouth and on the fuscous lid, which arches 
over the mouth of the tube and is hairy and 
netted inside with purple veins. {Bot. Mag., 
1. 1 7 1 o.) There is also a figure in S weet'sF/owtr 
Garden (Series II., p. 138) under the name S. 
minor, which is referred to S. variolaris by 
Nicholson but is more like a form of S. rubra, 
having red-veined tubular leaves and green 
sepalled,purple-red or crimson petalled flowers. 
The true S. variolaris has yellow flowers, the 
petals being inflected over the stigma. Syn. 
aS". adunca. 
^ ^ ,^ As already indicated, wild hy- 
brids ot barracenia have long been 
known, such as those recently found by Mac- 
farlane near Summerville S.C. between Ss. 
jiava and variolaris, while others are common 
in Georgia between Drummondii diud Jiava. The 
first of the many garden hybrids however was 
S. Moorei raised at Glasnevin and exhibited at 
the Horticultural Exhibition held at Florence 
in May 1874, when it received a gold medal 
as a special award. 
S. Atkinsoniana. — A seedling from S. Jiava 
maxima and ^S". purpurea. It grows freely, with 
erect pitchers of 15 to 18 inches, green in 
colour with red ribs and veins. The lid is wide 
and heart-shaped, margined and slightly veined 
with reddish-purple ; flowers sulphur-yellow, 
and fragrant. At Kew this is said to be S. 
jiava X S. rubra, and the latter parent may 
account for its slender trumpets. 
S. atrosanguinea. — An erect-growing and 
deeply-coloured form of S. Jiava, in which the 
lids and the upper inside surface of the pitchers 
is rich blood-red around a paler centre; flowers 
sulphur-yellow. An imported plant, it was 
sent out in 1879 and received a certificate 
from the R.H.S. 
S. Clielsoni. — A cross raised by Messrs. 
Veitch in 1879, its parents being S. purpurea 
and S. rubra. Its pitchers are erect, a foot or 
more high, and of rich claret-purple colour ; 
deep crimson flowers 3 to 4 inches across. 
One of the best in its free growth and fine 
colour. 
S. Courtii. — Named after the late Mr. Court, 
who raised it for Messrs. Veitch as a cross 
between Ss. purpurea and psittacina. Pitchers 
swollen, half-decumbent, and of a rich deep 
crimson ; flowers red. 1885. 
S. Claytoni. — A distinct plant with erect, 
highly-coloured pitchers, vinous-purple shad- 
ing to crimson. 
S. crispata. — Also known as S. Jiava crispata 
and possibly a natural cross between S. Jiava 
and S. rubra, having come from America as 
a wild plant about 1879. The erect pitchers 
are green, with an open network of red veins. 
S. Crispiana. — A new hybrid raised by Mr. 
Bruce of Chorlton-cum-Hardy and staged at 
the recent Temple Show of the R.H.S. It is 
a handsome plant coming from Courtii crossed 
with Sanderiana, and shows a blending of the 
I two in its curved pitchers of about 18 inches 
I high, slender at the base and widening to the 
j mouth which is closely overhung by a lid 2 
