SARRACENIA DRUMMONDII. DRUMMOND S ITrCIIER-PLANT. 7 



ovary and stamens," as Professor Wood explains it. When the 

 flower is fully expanded and recurved, the petals seem to hang- 

 between the up-curved angles of this persistent membrane, 

 which membrane, according to Curtis, in the "Botanical Maga- 

 zine," is " like a side-saddle, the petals hanging out from the 

 angles like a lady's legs." Nuttall, however, does not seem to 

 agree with this account, or that "Side-saddle flower" is even 

 an American name. He says : " The most curious plant of the 

 class Polyandria" (the Linnasan system prevailed in that day, 

 and Sarracenia was then referred to this class) "is undoubtedly 

 the peculiar North American genus Sarracenia, termed in Eng- 

 land the Side-saddle flower, or rather leaf, as the resemblance 

 only exists there to the old-fashioned side-saddle." One would 

 judge from this expression of Nuttall's that the name of " Side- 

 saddle " flower was not the common one by which it was known 

 in this country, but was given to it in England. Yet this hardly 

 agrees with Gronovius' " Flora Virginica," wherein is a note 

 attributed to Clayton, of Virginia, which says, — he is evidendy 

 referring to the Sarracenia varioiaris, — "This is commonly called 

 Side-saddle flower; and in North Carolina, the Trumpet flower." 



The name of Drnmjnojidii was given to this species by 

 Croom, a very promising American botanist, who collected 

 industriously through the Southern States, but whose useful 

 career was cut short by a marine accident; and it is a little 

 remarkable that Drummond, an enthusiastic Scotch collector, the 

 one for whom the plant was named, should also have died at 

 Havana, far away from home and friends, when on a collecting 

 tour. Thus, Croom and Drummond, both in a measure victims 

 to science, happily have their names associated in the history of 

 this beautiful flower. 



One of the most interesting facts connected with our plant is 

 its fly-catching power, already referred to, which this species has 

 in common with other Sarracenias. There is not only the secre- 

 tion of water in the pitcher-like leaves, but a secretion of sweet 

 liquid is found on the surface, which it is believed is in pursu- 



