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ing to latitude. The leaves are perfectly evergreen, and must be 

 capable of enduring freezing temperatures for several months at the 

 northernmost stations. 



Sarracenia psittacina, the smallest member of the genus, resembles 

 the preceding in having the leaves widely spreading in a rosette, and 

 in being very similarly colored. They are quite differently shaped, 

 however, and usually smaller and more numerous than those of 8. pur- 

 purea. The usual type of leaf, found in flat sandy pine-barrens, is 

 short and prostrate, with a comparatively narrow wing, and of a pre- 

 vailing reddish color except for the white ''windows" in the hood. 

 The other extreme of leaf-form, found chiefly in shaded sphagnous 

 bogs, is obliquely ascending, with a broad wing, long tube — sometimes 

 eight or ten inches long— and small hood, and much paler in color. 

 In either case the plant hardly ever stands out above its neighbors 

 sufficiently to be photographed satisfactorily, and it is scarcely visible 

 until one is within a few yards of it. It differs from all its congeners, 

 and resembles Darlingtonia, in having the entrance to the pitcher a 

 small round opening on the inner side of the globose hood, which bears 

 little resemblance to any ordinary leaf-blade. The leaves, although 

 of rather thin texture, are evergreen or nearly so, like those of many 

 other rosette-forming plants, particularly in such mild climates. The 

 flowers are red, on stalks usually not over eight inches tall. 



This species seems to have been found first by William Young, Jr., 

 ^'Queen's Botanist," who collected plants in the Carolinas in 1766- 

 1768. But he must have gone into Georgia to get it, for it is not 

 known east of the Savannah River, and it escaped the notice of 

 Thomas Walter, who published a ''Flora Caroliniana" in 1788, and 

 even of Stephen Elliott, who published a ''Botany of South Carolina 

 and Georgia" in 1816-1824. It was first described in 1803 in the 

 "Flora Boreali-Americana" by Andre Michaux, a French botanist 

 who traveled extensively in all parts of Xorth America that were 

 settled at the time of the Revolution. He said it grew "from the city 

 of Augusta, Georgia, to Florida" ; but it is not now known within 

 sixty miles of Augusta, the northeasternmost known locality for it l)e- 

 ing in Bulloch County, Georgia. From there it ranges northwestward 



