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trica, both being a description of plants growing 

 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. With some 

 confreres he founded and became president of 

 the Medical Society of Chester County, a happy 

 union which drew together all that was best in 

 the local medical world. 



One thing which pleased him greatly was the 

 perpetuation of his name in a flower. Professor 

 De Candolle of Geneva named a genus after him, 

 but it was not sufficiently distinct ; another friend, 

 Professor Torrey of New York dedicated to him 

 a finer plant, of the order Sarraceniaceae, grow- 

 ing in California. 



Professor Torrey, writing On the Darlingtonia 

 Californica* tells us : " This new Pitcher plant 

 was first detected by Mr. J. D. Brackenridge, 

 who found it in a marsh, bordering a small tribu- 

 tary of the Upper Sacramento, a few miles south 



of Shasta Peak Without the flowers (it 



being October) nothing further could be deter- 

 mined respecting it; but from the bracteate scape 

 and deeply parted lamina or appendage of the 

 leaves, it seemed more probable that it was dis- 

 tinct from Sarracenia." Dr. G. W. Hulse, of 

 New Orleans, found it in the same region many 

 years later, and sent one in flower to Torrey; so 

 the latter goes on to say: " The plant proves to 

 be generically distinct from Sarracenia as well as 



2 Smithsonian Institution Papers, April, 1850. 



