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Indian cup

• an herb, Sarracenia purpurea, whose leaves form into pitcher-shaped receptacles that entrap insects, adopted as the floral emblem of Newfoundland.

  See also: pitcher plant  

  • 1823  Indian Cups [Sarracinia Purpurea].
  • 1849  Among the plants is to be distinguished the rare and most curious Indian cup or pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea), the leaves of which [are] united together, so as to form a deep cup filled with water, distilled probably from the moss in which the plant is found.
  • 1861  The Sarracenia is the beautiful Indian Cup, seen in the bogs or swamps.