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230, shading to dull green. The flowers are a fine red colour. This is the easiest to obtain, and the hardiest of them all. In a sheltered position in a bog it would live through the year in any part of England.

S. variolaris has the lid of the pitcher bent over the mouth of the tube in a manner different to all the rest. It is a beautiful variety, of large growth, and has yellow flowers. The lid of the pitcher is purplish red, spotted with white.

S. psittacina is a miniature, with small pitchers which spread horizontally, with a kind of inverted hood for a lid. The appearance of a perfect pitcher of this is that of a parrot’s head reversed, as when a parrot suspends itself head downwards from its perch. The pitchers are dull red, spotted with white, and the flowers are deep sanguineous red.

Darlingtonia Californica is an interesting alliance of the Sarracenias. It has a curious pitcher, the lid of which forms a perfect hood, from the inner edge of which the true leaf is produced. The hood is usually so placed as to completely exclude rain, yet moisture and dead flies are commonly found in the pitchers.



The Australian pitcher plant Cephalotus follicularis is a native of the swampy lands of the south-west of Australia, more especially in the neighbourhood of King George's Sound