The History, Structure and Distribution of 

 5arracenia Catesbaei, Ell. 



By J. M. Macfarlane, D. Sc. 



Sarraccnia Catesbaei was first described by Dr. Stephen 

 Elliott in "A Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and 

 Georgia." In Volume II, page ii, he defines it as follows: 

 "Leaves firmly erect, tube funnel-shaped, longitudinal wing 

 linear, throat straight, appendix erect, somewhat reniform, 

 reticulate with colored veins." He then refers to Table 69, 

 Fig. B, of Catesby's "Illustrations," and adds : "Leaves 12 

 to 18 inches high, regularly tapering to the base ; the upper 

 part of the leaves and the appendix distinguished by their 

 colored veins, the inner surface of the appendix covered by 

 long and very conspicuous hair. 



"This plant which has probably been united with the 

 5. fiava, and which can be connected with no other species, 

 appears to me sufficiently distinct; it differs by its rigidly 

 erect leaves, by its throat, which is straight and not expand- 

 ing, and by its appendix, of which the sides are not reflected. 

 It differs also from the 6^. fiava by its darkly colored purple 

 veins and heavy appendix. My specimens agree exactly 

 with the figure in Catesby, to which I have referred, and 

 were collected by Dr. Macbride along the margins of the 

 rivulets amidst the high sand hills of Chesterfield district in 

 South Carolina. The flowers I have not seen." 



On reference to Catesby's original description — which he 

 applies to 5. Hava — it is said "The leaves of this plant are 

 tubulous and ribbed, arising from a knotty fibrous root to 

 a height of about three feet ; they are small at the root, wid- 

 ening gradually to the mouth of the tube, which, in young 

 leaves, are closed, but open by degrees as the leaf increaseth ; 

 and when near its full growth arches over the mouth of the 



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