No shower can disturb these leaf insect traps of the rain-hat trumpet
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Item information
- Title:
- No shower can disturb these leaf insect traps of the rain-hat trumpet
- Description:
- No shower can disturb these leaf insect traps of the rain-hat trumpet. Note "windows" or clear spots on the back side. From Natural Gardens (pages 340-341): "Perennials with nodding large flowers with enormously expanded stigmas resembling an umbrella; 5-parted with thick sepals and prominent drooping petals: leaf petioles modified with water retaining vases, topped at on side by the smaller leafblade. For fuller account of these insect consuming plants see chapter on the savannahs. In grass-sedge bogs or savannahs, eastern and central. Spring."; From Natural Gardens (page 341): "KEY TO SPECIES: Leaves erect. Blade portion or hood fitting closely down over top of vase."
- Topics:
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Botany
- Subjects:
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Flowers
Hooded pitcher plant (Sarracenia minor)
Pitcher plants
- Original Format:
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Hand colored lantern slide
- Extent:
- 3.25 x 4 in.
- Item identifier:
- 0021016
- Photographer:
- Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 more info on Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978
- Created Date:
- circa
- Genre:
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Close-up views
- Location:
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Big Savannah (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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B. W. Wells
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- B.W. Wells lantern slides (UA023.039) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
