Distribution of Sarracenia Catesbaei, Ell. 433 



northeast side of branches of the Dog River below Mobile, 

 and it may possibly be from this locality that it was recorded 

 by Jewett in 1838, and by Sullivant in May, 1845. The 

 earliest specimens oT which I have exact knowledge were 

 collected by T. Drummond at New Orleans in 1832, and 

 these constitute his No. 12, sent out under the name of S. 

 Hava, Mich. It is recorded from near Mississippi City, 

 Miss., by W. M. Canby; from Biloxi and from Ocean 

 Springs, Miss., by S. M. Tracy; from Hammond, La., it has 

 been sent out by L. Gallup; from Texas specimens have been 

 collected at Swan by Reverchon, and at Kountze by G. C. 

 Nealley. A sheet of specimens. No. 284,926, of the United 

 States National Herbarium has been collected by Prof. L. F. 

 Ward near Florence, S. C. This locality is the nearest at 

 present known to that from which Macbride secured his 

 specimens "along the margins of the rivulets amidst the high 

 sand hills in South Carolina." From information received 

 from various correspondents it is specially abundant from 

 Alabama westward to Eastern Texas, and is particularly 

 so along the costal belt. Records seem to be wanting for it 

 over Florida, Georgia and the greater part of South Carolina. 



The resemblance of rather small sized pitchers to those 

 of S. rubra is striking, and this extends also in a minute 

 degree to the microscopic structure which I hope to treat of 

 elsewhere, while both differ in this respect from the other 

 species of the genus. The flowers are highly diagnostic, 

 for in the soft petaloid character of the sepals, and their 

 resemblance in color to the pale lemon-yellow petals, they 

 markedly differ from those of S. flava. 



As regards flowering periods, S. Catesbaei is the earliest 

 species. The writer gathered material near Mobile in Feb- 

 ruary which already showed flower buds about two inches in 

 height. From records kindly supplied by Mr. H. G. Gayfer 

 these blossomed in the second week of March, while flowered 

 herbarium specimens from various other localities along the 

 coast record dates from March 19th to April 3d. The speci- 



