Nat. Ord. Sarraceniace^:. 
(SOLDIER’S DRINKING CEP.) 
Sarracenia Purpurea. 
YEN the most casual observer can hardly pass a bed of these 
most remarkable plants without being struck by their 
appearance, indeed, from root to flower, it is every 
way worthy of our notice and admiration. 
The Pitcher Plant is by no means one of those flowers found 
singly and in inaccessible bogs and dense cedar-swamps, as are 
some of our rare and lovely Orchids. In almost any grassy swamp, 
at the borders of low lying lakes, and beaver-meadows, often in 
wet spongy meadows, it may be found forming large beds of 
luxuriant growth. 
When wet with recent showers or glistening with dew-drops, 
the rich crimson veinings of the broadly scalloped lip of the 
tubular leaf (which is thickly beset with fine stiff silvery hairs,) 
retaining the moisture, shine and glisten in the sun-light. 
The root is thick, solid, and fibrous. The tubular leaves are of 
a reddish tinge on the outer and convex side, but of a delicate 
light-green within. The texture is soft, smooth, and leathery; the 
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