Identifier: floristhorticult31854phil (find matches)
Title: The Florist and horticultural journal
Year: 1853 (1850s)
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Subjects: Horticulture Botany
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ges of mountainscovered by a forest of large trees, composed principally of Pinus Lamberti-ana. In this forest there were numerous openings; I had here fallen a con-siderable distance behind my companions, and in one of these openings, onthe margin of a small stream that I could step across, I detected the Dar-lingtonia, (then out of flower,) growing in bunches, in company with a speciesof Epipactis and a Parnassia ; there was no swamp or morass, but only afew narrow wet creeks bordering the streams, which I am inclined to believetakes its rise in low swamp land at the base of the mount. The appearance of this Sarracenioid, pitcher-plant, in the distance, re-minded me much of some species of Iris, particularly the I. pseud-acorus.The notes in my possession, taken on the spot at the time, are brief; and thespecimens of the plant being in the hands of Dr. Torrey, I therefore take theliberty of transcribing for the benefit of your readers, his very excellent de- HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 89
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40 THE FLORIST AND scription—-which is better than any thing I could say in regard to the plant?even were the specimens before me. The plant is perennial. Root-stock short and thick, producing numer-ous stout, dark-brown, fibrous roots. Leaves all radical; the adult ones fromeighteen inches to two feet or more in length; the petiole or pitcher tubular,gradually tapering downward, and singularly twisted on its axis about halfa turn, marked with strong parallel and longitudinal veins, which are con-nected by very slender veinlets. The summit is vaulted, and formed into asac about the size of a hens egg, on the under side of which is an oval ori-fice about half-an-inch in diameter, opening into the cavity of the pitcher*The areolae of the sac, and also of the back of the tube, on the upper part,are discolored (of a dull orange-color, in the dried specimens,) as in Sarra-cenia variolaris and S. Drummondii. Along the inside of the petiole is anarrow wing, which is single, except at the b

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