54 FLORA OF WORCESTER COUNTY. 



RESEDACE^: (MIGNONETTE FAMILY). 



Reseda (Tourn.) L. Mignonette. 

 albaL. 

 Worcester. Mr. George Coult. 



SARRACENIACEvE (PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY). 



Sarracenia (Tourn.) L. 



purpurea L. Pitcher-plant. 



In peat bogs and similar places, common. 

 "Several Frenchmen of a certain intellectual eminence made their 

 abode in Canada from time to time. Sarrazin, a naturalist as well 

 as a physician, has left his name to the botanical genus Sarracenia, 

 of which the curious American species, S. purpurea, the 'pitcher- 

 plant,' was described by him. His position in the colony was 

 singular and characteristic. He got little or no pay from his patients; 

 and, though at one time the only genuine physician in Canada, he was 

 dependent on the king for support. In 1699, we find him thanking 

 his Majesty for 300 francs a year, and asking at the same time for 

 more, as he had nothing else to live on. He died at Quebec in 1734." 

 See Parkman's "The Old Regime in Canada," Chapter XIX, 

 note at end. 



DROSERACE^: (SUNDEW FAMILY). 



Drosera L. Sundew. 



rotundifolia L. Round-leaved Sundew. 



In bogs and in wet sand, common. 



"During the summer of 1860, I was surprised by finding how 

 large a number of insects were caught by the leaves of the common 

 sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) on a heath in Sussex. I had heard 

 that insects were thus caught, but knew nothing further on the subject. 

 I gathered by chance a dozen plants, bearing fifty-six fully expanded 

 leaves, and on thirty-one of these dead insects or remnants of them 



