Insectivorous Plants (Part //). 
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Sarraceniaceae. 
1. Perennial herbs with rhi- 
zomes, growing in marshes. 
2. Leaves with expanded 
sheathing leaf-base, ascidiform 
by excavation of the mid-rib, 
glandular and hairy without 
and within, or within only. 
3. Leaf - glands multicel- 
lular, alluring attractive (and 
digestive?) in function; seldom 
or never connected with 
bundles. 
4. Pitcher continuous with 
the basal leaf-portion. 
5. Inflorescence solitary or 
racemose ; flowers hermaphro- 
dite, large, and green, greenish- 
yellow, yellow-red, or reddish 
purple. 
6. Sepals 4 or 5, green or 
slightly petaloid, covered with 
glands like the attractive lid- 
glands, glabrous, free, hypo- 
gynous. 
7. Petals o or 5 ; large, free, 
hypogynous. 
8. Stamens indefinite, free, 
hypogynous ; anthers 2-celled. 
Nepenthaceae. 
1. Under-shrubs with feeble 
stems, growing in marshes and 
wet places. 
2. Leaves with expanded 
leaf-base, ascidiform by ex- 
cavation of the mid-rib, glan- 
dular and hairy or glabrous 
without, glandular within. 
3. Leaf -glands multicel- 
lular, alluring attractive (and 
digestive?) in function; of large 
size, and connected with 
bundles. 
4. Pitcher continuous with 
leaf-base in seedling, but 
separated in the adult by the 
intervention of a tendril. 
5. Inflorescence racemose, 
flowers small, dioecious, rarely 
hermaphrodite in teratological 
specimens ; green, greenish- 
yellow, or red. 
6. Sepals 4, rarely 3, green 
or slightly petaloid, covered 
with glands like the attractive 
lid - glands, hairy without, 
glabrous and glandular with- 
in, free or slightly connate, 
hypogynous. 
7. Petals, o. 
8. Stamens (of staminal fl.) 
4-16 connate, hypogynous, 
anthers 2-celled. 
