6 SARRACENIA DRUMMONDII.—-DRUMMOND’S PITCHER-PLANT. 
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 
Sarracema 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 little 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- 
cyclopedia” 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, Dr. 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 
