6 SARRACENIA DRUMMONDII. DRUMMOND S PITCHER-rLANT. 



scarcely pass, it seems as like a wild beast as it " crouches " and 

 waits for its prey as any plant can be. The genus is confined 

 wholly to the Atlantic portion of the United States, and because 

 of their very remarkable form must have been among the first 

 of America's plants to receive marked attention from the white 

 man on his arrival in the new world. It is believed to have 

 been referred to by John Henry Bauhin, who published a history 

 of plants in Switzerland, about the year 1650. The name 

 Sarraceiiia is, however, of comparatively recent origin, having 

 been given to the genus by Tournefort, a distinguished French 

 botanist who flourished at the opening of our present century, 

 in honor of Dr. Sarrazin, whom Milne calls "an ingenious French- 

 man, and who introduced several Canadian plants into Euro- 

 pean gardens." Our text-books tell litde more than this of him. 

 Gray's "School Botany" merely says, "named for Dr. Sarrasin, 

 of Quebec," and this is repeated in the same author's " Manual," 

 except that the name is spelled Sarrazin. Professor Wood 

 makes it " Dr. Sarrazen," so that the student has the choice of 

 three orthographic forms. The Botanical Editor of Rees' " En- 

 cyclopaedia" uses the form employed by Professor Gray in the 

 " Manual," and does not seem to think that the credit of intro- 

 ducing " several Canadian plants " does him justice, for he gives 

 the following account of him : " Sarracenia was so named by 

 Tournefort, in honor of his friend, Dn Sarrazin, of Quebec, who 

 collected numerous plants in Canada, specimens of which are 

 still in the Herbarium of the Museum of Natural History at 

 Paris. While they lay there for ages unnoticed, the discovery 

 of the same plants has been attributed to more recent travellers, 

 who, indeed, could know nothing of Dr. S.'s acquisitions." 



Having given some account of the origin of its botanical 

 name, we may devote a short space to its common one of " Side- 

 saddle flower," by which many of the family, as well as this 

 particular species, are often known. The stigma of the Sarracenia 

 consists of a broad plate; or, rather, there are "five stigmas 

 united into a large peltate persistent membrane, covering the 



