28 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
and pearly everlasting which breathes out a delicious 
fragrance." About the B{)gs of Etchowog beyond Gregor 
Rock the ladies' tresses, the last orchid of the year, blooms 
amid the blue-fringed gentians, and creamy stars-of-par- 
nassus, making the marsh a place of marvelous beauty. 
THE PITCHER-PLANT INDOORS. 
KV WALTER A LB [ON SCJI I RLS. 
IT is probal)lynot generally known that the pitcher plant 
{Snrraceiiiii purpurea) can easily be raised indoors. 
Over a year ago I secured one of these plants from an 
eastern nursery. I planted it in a small pail, in a soil 
composed of sand mixed with the sphagnum moss in 
which it was ])acked when it came from the nursery. I 
had heard that thev should be grown under a bell-glass, 
but not having anything of that kind. I placed a Irnitern 
globe over the plant. It began to grow at once and kept 
sending up new leaves all summer. These were mere 
sharp pointed cwlindrical shoots at first, but before they 
were an inch long the well known pitcher form began to 
make itself manifest. A small notch appeared on the 
dorsal side near the tip of the shoot. This was finallv to 
become the opening of the pitcher just below the hood. 
The leaves remained closed until they were nearly full- 
grown ; the two sides of the hood being pressed close 
together. Then some morning on looking at the plant 
the leaf would be found wide open. .Around the uritler 
side of the hood were many sharp i)ointed bristles all 
iw)inting downward ; below these was a zone as smooth 
- -lass, and the })ottom of the pitcher was full of xvater; 
■ -ritable death trap for the flies and other small insects 
■.!oh came to taste the drops of clear nectar-liko fluid 
.. oh was sprinkled over the inner face of the hcx^l. 
• nv were the victims wliich went down over that 
■uih surface never to return. 
Alth.jugh our plant diil not i)roduce any flowers, it is 
- ;.;c to say that it attracted more attentir>n than all the 
