ON THE CULTIVATION OF SARRACENIADS. 
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NOTES ON THE CULTIVATION OF SARRACENIADS (Sarraceniace^). 
The natural order, SarraceniaceaB, at present consists of two very distinct and singular 
genera, Sarracenia, and Heliampliora ; the first containing six known species, and the 
latter only one. 
All are herbaceous plants of low growth, with fibrous 
roots, radical leaves, and the petioles forming hollow 
tubes or pitchers, open at the top, with concave lids, 
which, however, ^vhen the leaves are mature, do not 
cover the orifice ; and the interior of each pitcher is 
thickly covered with reflexed, secreting hairs. 
The species of Sarracenia introduced to this country 
are S. Drummondi, flava, minor, purpurea, rubra, and 
variolaris. 
Of S. Drummondi we 
know little, except that it 
was found growing in the 
same localities as the other 
species, is of dwarf habits, 
has purple flowers, and was 
brought to this country in 
1829. 
Sar. flava has large 
funnel-shaped leaves, two 
feet or more long, with 
a spreading throat, and a 
large appendage. Tbe 
flowers are greenish yel- 
low, tinged with brown. 
Sar. minor. — The 
smallest species yet known ; 
a native of Georgia, whence 
it was introduced in 1829 
through Mr. T. Nuttall. 
The outer series of the 
calyx consists of three 
small sepals of a bluish 
green ; the inner series is 
large and spreading ; green on the upper side, and slightly tinged with 
purple underneath, and at the margins. The petals are of a bright 
purple on the under side, and tinged with purple on the upper. 
S. PURPUREA. — This plant, in its flowering state, is very handsome ; 
the flower-stalks rise a foot or more high from the centre of the hollow 
leaves, each surmounted at the top with the flower, which, by a curve 
near the extremity of the flower-stalk (a character common to all the 
species) is so reversed, as to turn the top part of it to face the leaves, 
and show the gay carmine purple of the petals to the greatest advantage. 
It is a native about Quebec, Lake Huron, and perhaps throughout most 
parts of Canada, as far northward as Bear Lake, and south to Carolina. 
It was originally introduced by Mr. John Tradescant, jun., about the 
year 1640. 
S. RUBRA. — This truly beautiful species is less known than purjmrea, 
s. Flava. with which it is often confounded. It is, however, more scarce than the 
