SIDE-SADDLE FLOWERS. 7;^ 



A similar structure in Sarraccnia purpurea (fig. 8) 

 is thus described by Mr. W. H. Gilburt,i in his 



Fig. 8. — Pitcher oi Safracenia purpurea, reduced, with section. 



memoir on " The Histology of Pitcher-Plants." He 

 says : — " The interior surface of this pitcher is divided 



' W. H. Gilburt in " Journal of the Ouekett Microscopical 

 Club," November, 1880, vol. vi., p. 154. 



There is a characteristic figure of this Sarracenia in old 

 Gerarde's "Herbal" (1597), where it is called "hollow-leaved 

 sea-lavender," and stated to be copied from Clusius, " for the 

 strangenesse thereof, but hope that some or other that travelL 

 into forraine parts may finde this elegant plant, and know it 

 by this small expression, and bring it home with them, that so 

 we may come to a perfecter knowledge thereof." — P. 412. 



