9G Observations on the genus Sarracenia; 



ilite" clans tout qui est de sa profession. On est veritable- 

 ment Burpris de trouver une bomme d'un merite si univerael 



dans une colonic."* 



Kalraf also makes honorable mention of Dr. Sarrasin, and 



»rms us that he died at Quebec of a malignant fever, con- 

 tracted at the hospital where be visited the sick. 



The genua SarraCi nia was,itappears,originallyestablishedon 

 S. purpurea, the only species that extends as far north as ( la- 

 inula, and was placed in PolyandriaMonogyniaof theLinmean 

 artificial system. In the natural method it was somewhat doubt- 

 fully referred to Papaveraceae, b} r Jussicu ; but was afterwards 

 raised to the rank of an independent order by De La Pylaie,$ 

 under the name of Sorrow nice, or, as adopted by later writers, 

 Sarraeemacea). Both Jussicu and De La Pylaie were unac- 

 quainted with the structure of the embryo in Sorrow not ; it 



. however, been observed to be dicotyledonous by Hooker,§ 

 and also by Nuttall,| who witnessed the germination oi S. 



purea at Philadelphia, and describes the embryo as fur- 

 nished with perfectly distinct, long and linear cotyledons. 

 The order Sarntceiiiaee;e is generally considered to be more 



nearly allied to Papaveracese and Nymphseacese than to any 

 others, and is accordingly placed by Dr. Hooker between these 

 two orders. Professor Lindley,*J without however denying the 

 importance of these affinities, takes a different and somewhat 

 unsuspected view of the alliances of the order, believing it to 

 be very nearly related to Dionsea, the dilated leafstalks of 

 which only require their margins to cohere to be identical with 

 tin- pitchers of Sarracenia. A Bimilar peculiarity in foliage is 

 Cephalotus, Nepenthes and Dischidia; but the re- 



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