. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Family4i. SARRACENIACEAE La Pyl. Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris 6: 379. 1827. Pitcher-Pl.\nt F.^milv. Marsh herbs, with basal tubular or pitcher-shaped leaves, and large scapose nodding solitary flowers. Sepals 4 or 5. hypogynous, imbricated, persistent. Petals 5, imbricated, hypogynous, deciduous or none. Stamens oc, hypogynous; anthers versatile. Ovary i, 3-5-ceIled; ovules cc, in
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Family4i. SARRACENIACEAE La Pyl. Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris 6: 379. 1827. Pitcher-Pl.\nt F.^milv. Marsh herbs, with basal tubular or pitcher-shaped leaves, and large scapose nodding solitary flowers. Sepals 4 or 5. hypogynous, imbricated, persistent. Petals 5, imbricated, hypogynous, deciduous or none. Stamens oc, hypogynous; anthers versatile. Ovary i, 3-5-ceIled; ovules cc, in many rows. Capsule 3-5-celled, loculicidally dehiscent: style terminal, peltate, lobed, or in one genus simple. Seeds small, the testa reticulated; embryo small; endosperm fleshy. Three genera and about 10 species, all natives of America. amphora of California and Heliamphora of Venezuela are the only kno I. SARRACENIA [Toum.] L. Sp. PI. 510. 1753. Leaves hollow, pitcher-form or trumpet-shaped, with a lateral wing and a terminal lid or lamina. Sepals 5, with 3 or 4 bracts at the base. Petals 5, ovate or oblong. Ovary S-celled. Style dilated at the apex into a peltate umbrella-like structure with S rays which terminate under its angles in hooked stigmas. Capsule 5-celled, granular, rugose. Seeds numerous, anatropous. [Named in honor of Dr. Jean Antoine Sarracin, a botanist of Quebec] About 8 species natives of purpurea L. and southeastern North America. Type species: Sarracenia Leaves pitcher-shaped, curved; flower purple or greenish (rarely yellow'). Leaves tubular-trumpet-shaped ; flower yellow. 1. S. purpurea. 2.
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