SARRACENIA DRUMMONDII.—DRUMMOND’'S PITCHER-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 Linnaan 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 itin England. Yet this hardly 
agrees with Gronovius’ “Flora Virginica,” wherein is a note 
attributed to Clayton, of Virginia, which says,—he is evidently 
referring to the Sarracema variolarts,— This is commonly called 
Side-saddle flower; and in North Carolina, the Trumpet flower.” 
The name of Drummondii 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 Savracenzas. 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- 
