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DRUMMOND'S SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER 
(SARRACENIA DRUMMONDII.) 
A Stove Marsh Plant from Florida, belonging to the Natural Order of Sarraceniads. 
Specific Cfiarartcr. 
DRUMMOND'S SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. -Pitchers 
long, straight, dilated upwards, angular, tapering much to 
the base j furnished with a sharp projecting rib in front, 
with an undulating inHexed roundish blade, which is 
covered with long hairs in the inside. Flowers purple. 
SARRACENIA DRUMMONDII; ascidiis strietisangulatis 
extus glabris basi angustatis apice dilatatis, antice in 
costam angustam rectam productis, lamina subrotunda 
undulata crispa apiculata intiis hirsute, flore fusco- 
purpureo. 
Sarracenia Drummondii. Groom's Observations on the genus Sarracenta, No. 3, with a plate, in the Annals of the 
Lyceum of Natural History of New York, vol. 4. 
yisrroRs to Chatsworth, in the summer 
glorious aspect of the Victoria Lily, than at the exquisite beauty of the plant now represented, 
hues and the most interesting forms. 
urm 
ally introduced bv the late Mr. Drumm 
»wn 
un 
western borders of the river of the same name, below Ocheesee. 
during 
amps 
Epidendr urn Magnolise 
The pitchers of this plant are from eighteen inches to two an 
The rim 
horn. Their colour is of the most vivid green, 
rilliantlv variegated with white, red. and green. 
roundish arched cover, much undulated and crisped. In 
with 
which point there is a considerable exudation of sweet viscid matter, apparently secreted by the hairs 
which exist there. The flower is of a dingy purple colour, roundish, about two and a half inches in 
diameter, with five blunt acuminate sepals, five obovate inflexed petals, and a pale green dilated five- 
angled membranous stigma, which is nearly as long as the flower itself ; each angle is divided into 
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