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Majesty for 300 francs a year, and asking at the same 
time for more, as he had nothing else to live on. Two 
years later the governor writes that, as he serves almost 
everybody without fees, he ought to have another 300 
francs. The additional 300 francs was given him; but, 
finding it insufficient, he wanted to leave the colony. 
‘He is too useful,’ writes the governor again; ‘we can- 
not let him go.’ His yearly pittance of 600 francs was 
at one time reénforced by his salary as member ef the 
Superior Council. He died at Quebec in 1734.” His 
name, however, shall not fade, cannot fade, from human 
remembrance so long as men study the wild flowers of 
America, where, I believe, this genus is as yet ex- 
clusively found. , 
The pitcher-shaped leaves, usually half filled with 
water and drowned insects, with their rounded arching 
hood at the apex clothed with stiff bristles pointing 
downward, making the entrance easy for insects but the 
exit almost impossible, when once seen and examined 
ever so slightly, are not to be forgotten. In one respect 
the flower also is peculiar. The short style of the pistil 
is expanded at the summit into a broad 5-angled, 
5-rayed, umbrella-shaped body, about as large as a 
horizontal section of the whole flower, while the five 
delicate rays terminate under the angles in as many 
little hooked stigmas. This forms a cover for the nu- 
merous stamens, which are not visible unless the petals 
