. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. HOT-HOUSE OR STOYE PLANTS. 201 what decumbent, long and ] narrow, and very highly coloured, being streaked | and mot iled with red and j purple. Garden variety. S. crispata -pitchers erect, upper part, with lid,netted with red. North America. S. Drummondii — pitchers erect, bright green ; upper portion, and the large re- curved lid, beautifully spotted and netted with red and white, and suf- fused with crhnson. There is a form called alba, in which the upper portion is spotted with white only. Florida. S. excellens—pitchers erect, green, spotted with w
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. HOT-HOUSE OR STOYE PLANTS. 201 what decumbent, long and ] narrow, and very highly coloured, being streaked | and mot iled with red and j purple. Garden variety. S. crispata -pitchers erect, upper part, with lid,netted with red. North America. S. Drummondii — pitchers erect, bright green ; upper portion, and the large re- curved lid, beautifully spotted and netted with red and white, and suf- fused with crhnson. There is a form called alba, in which the upper portion is spotted with white only. Florida. S. excellens—pitchers erect, green, spotted with white, the upper portion netted and mottled with deep purplish-red. Garden va- riety. S. exculta—pitchers erect, lower portion green, above marbled with white, and netted with crimson. Gar- den variety. S. exornata — pitchers slightly decumbent, dark green, veined withpurple; lid erect, broadly veined with purplish-red. Garden variety. S. flava—so called from the colour of its flowers. Pit- cher erect, of a uniform apple-green; in the va- riety picta, the throat is beautifully netted with crims n; in the form cal led ma xinia the pit c h ers are very ttout, plain green, with a white throat, and an enormous lid. North America. S. formosa — pitchers in- curved and stout; green, changing with age to rich reddi>h-purple. Garden variety. S. illustrata— pitchers erect, apple - green, strongly netted with deep crimson. Garden variety. S. Maddisoniana—pitchers short, broad , and in- curved ; green, veined with red ; lid large, and incurved, green, richly veined with purple. Gar- den variety. S. Mitchelliana — pitchers curved, green, beautifully netted with line rad lines, changing to reddish-ciim- son ; lid lai-iie and waved, broadly netted with deep crimson. Garden variety. S. Mooreana—a cro?s be- tween flava and Drum- mondii, and pjartaking of the characters of both parents. S. psittacina-" The Par- rot's ; Pitchers de- cumbent, winged in front ,
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