. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. DARLINGTONIA DASYLIRION 457 pitcher plants. There is onlj' one species in this gemis. The plant was first collected near Mt. Shasta by the Wilkes Exploring Expedition. Indians attacked the party, and as the explorers retreated to their camp W. D. Brackenridge grabbed something, which turned out to be fragments
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. DARLINGTONIA DASYLIRION 457 pitcher plants. There is onlj' one species in this gemis. The plant was first collected near Mt. Shasta by the Wilkes Exploring Expedition. Indians attacked the party, and as the explorers retreated to their camp W. D. Brackenridge grabbed something, which turned out to be fragments of this exciting plant. The Darlingtonia grows at an altitude of 5,000 feet on the Sierra Nevadas of California, in sphagnum bogs along with sundews and rushes. The pitchers grow in clusters, and are a foot or two high. The pitcher is slender, erect, spirally twisted and rounded at the top, something like a fiddle head. From this hangs a curious reddish structure â with two long flaps. Underneath the rounded top is seen the entrance to the trap, which means death to all sorts of insects, big and little. How the plant attracts them is not obvious, but the fate of the insects is clear. They climb down a long, narrow funnel, guided by nee- dle-like downward-pointing hairs. Arrived at the bot- tom, the insects find these needles numerous and con- verging. As they attempt to escape they are confronted by an impassable array of lances. The manner of their â death can be easily imagined. They sink into the bot- tom in a putrid, sticky mass, and the products of de- composition are presumably absorbed by the plant. Darlingtonias have been grown outdoors in the east the year round in a few special localities. Edward Gil- lett, at Southwick, Mass., grows them in a favored spot without artificial protection. F. H. Horsford can pre- serve them at Charlotte, Vt., with the aid of a winter mulch. Califdmica, Torr. Fig. 678. Eootstock horizontal: Ivs. forming pitchers as described above, whic
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