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cenia House of the University Botanic Garden, and began 

 to bloom within three weeks. They, as well as the Sledge 

 and Gayfer specimens, continued to bloom throughout the 

 succeeding month, each flower lasting, on the average, for 

 seventeen days. They varied from a pale lemon-straw color 

 to almost white, and in size were intermediate between those 

 of S. flava and ^. variolaris. Their identity with S. Uava 

 picta of the Kew, Edinburgh, Glasgow and other botanic 

 gardens was fully established. 



A review of the past descriptions of the species may now 

 be given as follows : Elliott's short, but exact description of 

 the pitchers, strongly indicates that his specimens represented 

 a form distinct from, but which up to that time had not been 

 distinguished from, 5. iiava. Nuttall * accepted Elliott's 

 diagnostic description and further added that the flower is 

 yellow. Eaton's description is equally exact, though it seems 

 to have been drawn from that of Elliott or Nuttall. Mohr 

 seems to refer to 5'. Cateshaei, but the specimens from Little 

 River near DeSoto Falls are unquestionably those of S. Hava, 

 as the writer has had the opportunity of inspecting these 

 through the kindness of Dr. Smith, head of the Alabama 

 Geological Survey. Small's description, which is the fullest 

 hitherto published, is thoroughly diagnostic, but statements 

 made by some of the writers might suggest that tliey were 

 dealing with natural hybrids, which are not uncommon in 

 the Southern States. Thus at least one would very closely 

 apply to wild hybrids between ^. Hava and 5. variolaris, such 

 as the writer has collected near Summerville, S. C. That 

 similar hybrids have been already sent out under mistaken 

 determination, is shown by sheets in the United States 

 National Herbarium, the Gray Herbarium at Harvard and 

 the Berlin Herbarium, distributed to two of these places by 

 R. M. Harper as 5^. Cateshaei, but which are evidently 

 natural hybrids of 6". Drummondii and the crimson throated 

 form of 5. Hava that is common in Georgia. 



After a careful study of the species, alike in the field and 



*Trans-Ainer. Phil. Soc. V. 4, p. 49. 



