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l)le slightly in the position and texture of its leaves). The names 

 Bucanephyllon and Coilophyllum had also been applied to it before 

 Tonrnefort's time; but our nomenclature dates from Limiieus (1753), 

 who adopted Tonrnefort's generic name for this plant. 



It is fairly common in sphagnous bogs in the glaciated region from 

 ISTewfoundland and the Xorthwest Territories to Wisconsin and north- 

 eastern Pennsylvania. South of the terminal moraine it is known in 

 a few places in southern Pennsylvania and one station in Maryland 

 (near Baltimore), and is fairly common in the pine barrens of New 

 Jersey. Then there is a gap in its known range, and the remaining 

 localities are south of Virginia and east of Mississippi Piver. It has 

 indeed been reported in the past from Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, 

 and Louisiana but without definite locality, and no botanist now living 

 seems to have seen it in those States (or in West Virginia). Possi- 

 bly some former stations for it may have been destroyed by drainage 

 operations. In ^N^orth Carolina it is found in many of the "pocosins" 

 in the southeastern part of the State, as well as in a few places among 

 the mountains ; and in South Carolina it occurs sparingly both in the 

 sand hills of Chesterfield County and in the flat pine-barrens in the 

 southern part. In Georgia it has been found only three or four 

 times, in Randolph, Lee, and Tattnall counties. (And in the last 

 named I was unable to find it in 1915 in the same place where I had 

 collected specimens in 1904, though the spot did not seem to have 

 been tampered with in the interval.) In West Florida and south- 

 western Alabama, however, it is quite common in gently sloping wet 

 pine-barrens, and does not differ perceptibly from the Xew Enghuid 

 plant. Farther west it becomes scarcer again, and. as stated above, 

 it is not now known to grow in Louisiana. 



The leaves form a rosette, and as a rule lie half buried in 

 moss, with the mouths of the pitchers wide open to the sky, so that 

 they must be filled to overflowing by almost every shower. The liood? 

 arc ])aler than the tubes, but are more or less mottled and streaked 

 with red. Variations ooccasionally found arc y('lh)wish leaves and 

 flowers, and leaves with tube and hood almost wanting. The flowers 

 are normally ])urplish red, and unfold from April to August accord- 



