Plate 457. 

 DARLINGTONIA CALIFORNIOA. 



Of all the singular forms that the so-called pitcher plants 

 assume, none is perhaps so much so as that now figured. We 

 have already figured the curious Cejiliahtus follicularis of 

 Australia, the remarkable Sarracenia Brummond'd of North 

 America, and now we add thereto this most singular Californian 

 species, closely allied to Sarracenia ; and for the opportunity of 

 figuring which we are indebted to Messrs. Veitch and Son, of 

 Chelsea.* 



No words that we can use could enable us to describe 

 adequately the very strange appearance of this rai'e plant. The 

 bird-like apjiearaiice of the pitchers, with their remarkable 

 appendages, almost like the wattles of some of our domestic 

 fowls, combined with the singular network of colour that 

 appears in every part of the leaf, combine to render it justly 

 one of the curiosities of vegetable life ; and as such it will be 

 eagerly sought after by those who delight in surrounding them- 



* It is impossible for us to name this distinguished firm witliout alluding to 

 the loss that Horticulture has sustained in the sudden death of its eminent 

 head, ]\Ir. James Veitch. His name will ever be remembered as that of one of 

 the most enterprising men in his profession, while by his untiring energy and 

 shrewd knowledge of men and things he has raised his establishment to the very 

 foremost place not only in England, but in the world. For ourselves, we have 

 to acknowledge the extreme courtesy ever extended both to our artists and 

 ourselves ; and the numerous figures of plants from his establishment which 

 have enriched our pages will bear witness to the large extent to which we have 

 been indebted to him. 



