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a clutch en passant. When he reached camp and 

 examined what he had caught up, it proved to be 

 parts of the leafage with some vestiges of seed ves- 

 sels but no flower. It was enough, nevertheless, for 

 John Torrey to recognize a new genus, which 

 he named in honor of Dr. William Darlington, an old 

 time Pennsylvania botanist. In 1851, Dr. G. W. 

 Hulse collected the plant in flower, perhaps at the 

 very spot where Brackenridge had made his flying 

 catch, and a complete description for the first time 

 then became possible. 



