530 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA, 
RESEDACEAE, Mignonette Family. 
RESEDA L. Sp. PI. 1:449. 1753. MiGnonerrr, 
Sixty species, Mediterranean Europe, Africa. 
Reseda lutea L.Sp. Pl.1:448. 1753, YELLOW CUT-LEAVED MIGNONETTE. 
EUROPE. 
Carolinian area. Adventive on ballast on the coast of southern New Engiand and 
southward. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile, July, 1885. Annual. 
Type locality: *‘ Hab, in Europae australioris montibus cretaceis.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
SARRACENIACEAE. Pitcher Plant Family. 
SARRACENIA L.Sp. P1.1:510. 1753. 
Six species, perennials, chiefly south Atlantic North America. 
Sarracenia purpurea L. Sp. P1.1:510. 1753. SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. 
EN.Sk.2:9. Gray, Man.ed.6,57. Chap. Fl. 20. 
Boreal zone to Louisianian area. From Labrador, Newfoundland, and Nova 
Seotia through Canada to the Rocky Mountains; New England to Florida and 
Louisiana, 
ALABAMA: Throughout the Coast Pine belt. Coast plain. Sphagnous bogs. Clarke, 
Geneva, Escambia, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. Flowers pale purple; March, 
April, Not infrequent. 
Type locality: ** Hab. in Americae septentrionalis udis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sarracenia psittacina Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.1:311. 1803. 
PaRROT Beak. PrrcueR PLANT. 
Chap. Fl. 20, Gray, Syn. FILN.A.1, pt. 1:80. 
Louisianian area, Coast of Georgia and Florida to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Damp and boggy pine barrens, 
Mobile, Baldwin, and Washington counties. Flowers pomegranate-purple; April. 
Not: rare, 
Type locality: ‘Hab. ab urbe Augusta Georgiae ad Floridam.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sarracenia rubra Walt. Fl. Car. 152. 1788. 
RED-FLOWERED TRUMPET-LEAP OR PITCHER PLANT. 
El. Sk.2:10. Chap. F121. Gray, Syn. FI. N.A.1, pt. 1:80. 
Louisianian area, North Carolina and Florida to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain, Damp sandy pine barrens, pine- 
meadows. Mobile County, Bayou LaBatre. Washington County, Vinegar Bend. 
Flowers reddish purple (wine-purple); April. Not rare. 
Economic uses: The rootstocks of S. rubra, 8. drummondii, and 8. purpurea are 
reputed to possess therapeutical properties. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sarracenia drummondii Croom, Ann. Lye. N. Y.4:100, #6. 1848, 
DRUMMOND TRUMPET-LEAF, 
Chap. Fl. 21, Gray, Syn. Fl. N.A.1, pt. 1:80. 
Louisianian area. Southwestern Georgia and western Florida, west to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Boggy pine barrens from Geneva to 
Washington County. Baldwin and Mobile counties. Flowers maroon purple. 
April; frequent. 
Type locality: ‘Near the town of Appalachicola in Florida. Abundant on the 
western borders of the Appalachicola River below Ocheesee, Dr. ct, IV, Chapman, 
in lit.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sarracenia flava L. Sp. Pl.1:510. 1753. YELLOW 'TRUMPET-LEAF, 
Ell. Sk. 2:10. Gray, Man.ed.6,57, Chap. FI.21.) Gray, Syn. FLN. A. 1, pt. 1:81. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia to Florida, west to Louisiana, 
