The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Pitcher

A name commonly applied to the tubular petioles of the Sarracenias, and also to the urn-like expansion in Nepenthes. Sir Joseph Hooker has shown that, in the latter genus, the Pitcher is not the dilated petiole, but a special organ, represented by a gland at the top of the costa of the young leaf.

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