With an Account of a New Species. 99 



Coilophyllum Virginianum breviore folio. Morris. Hist. III. p. 533. 

 Bucanephyllum Americanum. Plunk. Amalth. t. 376, f. 6. 

 Sarracenia foliis gibbis, Gronov. Virg. 164. 



Icon. Bot. Mag. t. S49 ; Miller, Die. I. t. 241 ; Catesby, Car. II. 

 t. 70 ; Plunkenett, Amalth. t. 376,/. 6. 



Habitat. From Hudson's Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. 

 Hudson's Bay, Michaux ; Newfoundland, De la Pylaie ; Ca- 

 nada, Dr. Richardson, Drummond ; Massachusetts, Prof. 

 Hitchcock ; New- York and New- Jersey, Dr. Torrcij; Virginia, 

 Gronov ; Carolina, Catesby ; near Newbern N. C ! ; near 

 Wilmington, N. C. Mr. Curtis; middle district of Carolina 

 and Georgia, Elliott ; near Charleston S. C ! Florida and 

 Alabama ! 



Observations. Leaves 4 — 8 inches long, tubular, bulging 

 in the middle, arcuate, ascending. Wing very broad and ar- 

 cuate. Lamina erect, very hairy on the inner surface. Tube 

 often nearly filled with water. Scape about a foot high, bear- 

 ing, as in all the species, a single nodding flower, which in this 

 is large and purple. 



This is, of all the species, the best known and the most ex- 

 tensively diffused. It is that on which the genus was founded, 

 according to the Encyclopedia of Plants, having been known 

 in Europe as early as 1640. 



S. heterophylla of Eaton is probably nothing more than S. 

 purpurea ; but has the plant yellow flowers? 



2. Sarracenia rubra, Walter. 



S. foliis longiusculis erectis gracilibus, t.ubo sursum sensim 

 dilatante, ala angusto-lineari, lamina erecta mucronata basi sub- 

 coarctata, flore rubro— purpureo. 



Sarracenia rubra, Wall. Ft. Car. p. 152 ; Willi. II. p. 1150 ; El- 

 liott, Bot. S. Car. and Georg. II. p. 10 ; Hooker, Ex. Fl. p. 13. 

 Icon. Hooker, Ex. Fl. t. IS. 



