SARRACENIA DRUMMONDII. 
DRUMMOND’S PITCHER-PLANT. 
NATURAL ORDER, SARRACENIACEA. 
SARRACENIA DRUMMONDI, Croom.— Leaves elongated, erect, trumpet-shaped, narrowly 
winged; lamina erect, rounded, short-pointed, hairy within, and like the upper portion of 
the tube white, variegated with reticulated purple veins. Leaves two feet long. Scapes 
longer than the leaves. Flowers three inches wide. (Chapman’s F/ora of the Southern 
United States. See also Wood’s Class-Book of Botany, under the name of S. Gronovii, 
var, Drummiondit.) 
Sy: ONGFELLOW, in describing an old-time slave hiding 
from his pursuers in a southern swamp, says: 
“ Where will-o’-the-wisps and glow-worms shine, 
In bulrush and in brake: : 
Where waving mosses shroud the pine, 
And the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine 
Is spotted like the snake: 
«Where hardly a human foot could pass, 
Or a human heart would dare, 
On the quaking turf of the green morass 
He crouched in the rank and tangled grass, 
Like a wild beast in his lair.” 
It is not often that a poet writing with one subject only in 
view, at the same time happens to paint the portrait of something 
entirely absent from his mind. Yet every one who has collected 
Drummond's pitcher-plant will recognize a very fair picture of 
it amidst its surroundings in the lines quoted. It is a car- 
nivorous plant, secreting in its pitcher-like leaves water into 
which insects are enticed, drowned, and eaten, as some botanists 
say. Besides growing among poisonous vines spotted like the 
snake, it is itself spotted; and just where the waving “Spanish 
moss” shrouds the pine, and in swamps where a human foot can 
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