96 Observations on the genus Sa?race7iia ; 



habilite dans tout qui est de sa profession. On est veritable- 

 ment surpris de trouver un homme d'un merite si universel 

 dans une colonic"* 



Kalmt also makes honorable mention of Dr. Sarrasin, and 

 informs us that he died at Quebec of a malignant fever, con- 

 tracted at the hospital where he visited the sick. 



The genus Sarraccniawas, it appears, originally established on 

 S. -purpurea, the only species that extends as far north as Ca- 

 nada, and was placed in Polyandria Monogynia of the Linnsean 

 artificial system. In the natural method it was somewhat doubt- 

 fully referred to Papaveracea:, by Jussieu ; but was afterwards 

 raised to the rank of an independent order by De La Pylaie,J 

 under the name of Sarraccnia, or, as adopted by later writers, 

 Sarraceniacea. Both Jussieu and De La Pylaie were unac- 

 quainted with the structure of the embryo in Sairacenia; it 

 has, however, been observed to be dicotyledonous by Hooker,^ 

 and also by Nuttall,|| who witnessed the germination of S.pur- 

 jmrca at Philadelphia, and describes the embryo as furnished 

 with perfectly distinct, long and linear cotyledons. 



The order Sarraceniaceae is generally considered to be more 

 nearly allied to Papaveracese and Nymplia-aceue than to any 

 others, and is accordingly placed by Dr. Hooker between these 

 two orders. Professor Lindley,^ without however denying the 

 importance of these affinities, takes a different and somewhat 

 unsuspected view of the alliances of the order, believing it to 

 be very nearly related to Dionoea, the dilated leaf-stalks of 

 which only require their margins to cohere to be identical with 

 the pitchers of Sarracenia. A similar peculiarity in foliage is 

 seen in Cephalotus, Nepenthes and Dischidia ; but the re- 



* Charlevoix Travels,^. 97—98. 



t Travels in Nortk America, (London, 1772) 2, p. 206. 



X Ann. Linn. Soc. Paris, 6, p. 388. 



5 Flora Am. Bar. I, p. 33. 



II Trans. Am. Phil. Soe. (new series), i, p. 50. 



t Introtl. to Nal. System, (cd, New-York) p. 190 



