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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ August, 
with very large pitchers, and a flat, roundish-cordate 
lid, traversed by red veins. The flowers are large 
and showy; bracts ovate; sepals ovate, yellowish- 
green ; petals projecting nearly 3 in., oblong- 
obovafe, deep yellow, downy; the disc of the 
stigma greenish-yellow, with bifid lobes. It is one 
of the plants figured by Catesby in History of 
Carolina, vol. ii., p. 69 (1754). 
The Yar. ornata, Ilort. Bull, is a rather large 
form, with green pitchers, traversed with red veins, 
the inner surface of the lid being especially marked 
with a network of red veins. The flowers, produced 
in early spring, are 8 in. across, the petals deep 
yellow. It differs from the var. Catesbasi chiefly in 
the fact that the stalk of the lid is longer, and that 
the upper part of the pitcher, as well as the lid, are 
marked with a network of red veins. 
Sarracenia atrosanguinea. 
The Var. Rugelii, Sliuttleiuorth (var. erythropus, 
Hort. Bull), is one of the larger forms, with the lid 
of the pitcher well marked, and strongly blotched 
with crimson at the base. 
The Var. limbata, Hort. Bull, is regarded by Dr. 
Masters as a large form of fiava, with a roundish 
lid, marked all round the edge on the lower side 
with a band of brownish-crimson 4 in. deep. It is 
a remarkable variety. 
The Var. maxima, Hort. Angl., is a large form, 
which only differs from the foregoing in the pitchers 
and their lids being wholly green. 
The Var. minima, Hort. Angl., differs from typical 
flava solely in the smaller size of all its parts. The 
pitcher-lid is roundish, but acute at the point. 
7. S. crispata (S. crispata, Moore in Bull. Cat. 
1880; S. flava crispata, Card. Chron.) This dis¬ 
tinct plant has lanceolate leaves. The pitchers are 
erect, 2 feet high, green, with prominent nerves, 
and with a deeper wing than in flava, taller than 
the flower-stems; the lid is erect, incurved, ovate 
acute, contracted at the base, and undulated. The 
upper part of the pitcher and the central part of 
the lid are marked by longitudinal pencillings of 
red, forming a rather open reticulation. The flower- 
stems are about feet high ; the flowers are 4-5 
inches across, recurved; the bracts oblong, boat¬ 
shaped ; the sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, with the 
margins strongly rolled back; the petals pendulous, 
inches long, white, broad at the base, con¬ 
tracted and indexed below the middle, above spathu- 
lately oblong or obovate, hanging loosely, but 
somewhat converging at the tips, recurved at the 
edge, not regularly disposed as in S. atrosanguinea, 
some curving inwards, others hanging loosely, and 
in some flowers regularly spread out; the ovary 
oblong obtuse ; and the disc of the style greenish, 
three inches across, with five triangular rather 
blunt notched lobes, and five whitish veins. The 
broader wing and incurved lid to the pitchers, 
the replicate edges of the sepals, the pure white 
petals, and the shorter, blunter lobes of the stylar 
disc, are marks which seem to indicate that the 
plant is specifically distinct from S. fiava, its 
nearest ally. 
8. S. atrosanguinea, (S. atrosanguinea, Moore in 
Bull, Cat. 1880; S. flava atrosanguinea, Gard. 
Chron.) This is a distinct and very handsome 
species, of moderate size. The pitchers are long, 
narrow, funnel-shaped, tapering below into the 
angular petiole, expanding at the mouth, which has 
a recurved margin ; lid broad, roundish-ovate, acute, 
keeled, erect, then incurved, green at first, with 
red reticulations, gradually becoming suffused, and 
finally entirely covered with a rich deep sanguineous 
satiny-red. The flowers are upwards of three 
inches across, very regularly campanulate in out¬ 
line ; sepals, recurved at the edge, primrose-yellow, 
curving over but quite separate from the petals ; 
petals regularly curved downwards, and then turn¬ 
ing outwards at the edge, creamy-white; disc of 
the style green. The flower is particularly elegant 
in outline; this peculiar form and the distinct 
coloration of the inner surface of the lids suffice to 
separate it from S. flava. 
—T. Moore. 
A JAPANESE VINE. 
NDER tlie name of Yama-bouto, there 
lias been introduced to tlie French 
Gardens, from Japan, a Vine, of which 
some interesting particulars, accompanied by a 
coloured figure, are published by M. Carriere 
in the llevue Horticole (1880, p. 310). It is a 
woody dioecious plant, of moderate vigour, like 
the cultivated Vine, clothed with small, thick, 
palmately lobed leaves, shiny above and ferru¬ 
ginous beneath, and producing small clusters, 
successively produced as the branches lengthen, 
of spherical berries about 4- in. long, of a shiny 
black colour, and with a deep vinous red 
juice, which, though scarcely sugary, is rather 
savoury, and without any disagreeable flavour. 
This juice can be used as a red ink for writing 
purposes, and might also be utilised for colour¬ 
ing wines; indeed, it is probable that in this 
