Volume 6 — PLATE CCCLXXXI.

SARRACENIA FLAVA.

Yellow Side-saddle Flower.

CLASS XIII. ORDER I.

POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Many Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Capsula 5-locularis. Stigma clypeatum. Calyx exterior 3-phyllus, superior 5-phyllus.

Capsule 5-celled. Stigma shield-shaped. Calyx outer 3-leaved, upper 5-leaved.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.

Sarracenia, foliis erectis tubulatis, valva collo contracta, apice plana erecta.

Sarracenia, with erect leaves, the valve contracted in the neck, with its point flat and erect.

Sarracenia flava, Walt. Fl. Carol. 153.—Aiton Hort. Kew. 2. 225.—Willd. Sp. Pl. tom. 2. 1150.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Few of the productions of Flora exhibit such extraordinary appearances as those of the small but interesting genus Sarracenia: whether we contemplate their tubulose, water-holding, lidded leaves; or the strange conformation of their flowers; but more especially their enormous shield-shaped stigmata.

Walter enumerates four species of Sarracenia in his Flora Caroliniana, all perennial-rooted; and all at this time existing in the London gardens; but they are rare.

The Side-saddle Flowers are rather difficult of cultivation, and succeed best when treated as green-house bog plants; and when plentifully supplied with water. They are propagated by dividing their roots in spring. The specimen from which our figure was taken, was obligingly sent us by the honourable Mr. Irby of Farnham Royal, Bucks.