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in New France and throughout his life in the new world shipped hundreds of specimens back to the Académie royale des sciences in Paris. Sarrasin contributed many articles to the publications of various learned societies, among others a “Description of the Castor (the beaver),” in the memoirs of the Academy of Sciences (1704); “A Letter on the Mineral Waters of Cap de la Magdeleine,” in the memoirs of Trevoux (1736);” and a “Description of the Water or Musk Rat of America.” To honour his work, the Academy named the pitcher genus Sarracenia.
shit-eating fly whose correct zoological name is Phthitia mulroneyi, a species collected beside Meech Lake in 1992. Perhaps the previous sentence should read: Mulroney must make doo-doo. Perhaps he did while in office. Turning to a cartoonist I like, one finds Gary Larson, creator of “The Far Side,” remembered in the species name, Strigiphilus garylarsoni. It is a louse found on owls. 
pitcher plant. The slippery sides of each pitcher are lined with downward-pointing hairs that help insects slide into the pitcher but prevent them from escaping. Trapped without mercy, they struggle, fall exhausted back into the water, and drown in the liquid to which the plant has added a flesh-dissolving enzyme. The decomposed bodies of the insects provide essential nutrients for the pitcher plant. 
species and have produced exotic— indeed, startling—pitcher colours and markings. I have sprinkled a few examples of these Sarracenia species throughout this page. Among the species shown in the small photographs are hybrids of Sarracenia alata, Sarracenia leucophylla, Sarracenia flava, and Sarracenia minor x oreophila.
