NORTH AMERICA® 415 
There were growing on the fand hills, environ- 
ing Penfacola, feveral curious non-defcribed plants; 
particularly one of the verticillate order, about 
eighteen inches in height : the flowers, which for- 
med loofe fpikes, were large and of a fine fcarlet 
colour ; but not having time to examine the fruTi- 
fication, or colled good fpecimens, I am ignorant 
of what order or genus it belongs to. And in 
the level wet favannas grew plentifully a new and 
very elegant fpecies of Saracinia (Saracinia lacuno- 
fa) ; the leaves of this plant, which are twelve or 
fourteen inches in length, Hand nearly ered, are 
round, tubular and ventricofe— but not ridged with 
longitudinal angles or prominent nerves, as the 
leaves of the Saracinia flava are; the aperture at 
top may be fliut up by a cap or lid, of a helmet 
form, which is an appendage of the leaf, turning 
over the orifice in that Angular manner; the ventri- 
cofe, or inflated part of the leaf, which is of a pale* 
but vivid green colour, is beautifully ornamented 
with rofe coloured ftuds or blifters, and the inner 
furface curioufly infcribed, or variegated, with crim« 
fon veins or fibres* It was pail the time for flower- 
ing, but the plant in any fituation is a very great 
curiofity* 
Next morning early we arofe from our hard 
fandy fea-beaten couch, being difturbed the whole 
night by the troublefome mufquitoes ; fetfail, and 
before night returned fafe to the city of Mobile. 
CHAP* 
