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The leaves are erect or nearly so, with tubes an inch or less in diame- 

 ter at the top, and roundish ascending hoods with dark red veins. 

 The flowers are red, as the name implies. A double-flowered form 

 has been found by Dr. W. C, Coker near Hartsville, S. C* 



Like the preceding, this was first described by Walter in 1788. It 

 is probably the least abundant member of the genus, and a person 

 unacquainted with it might look for it for several days without find- 

 ing it. It is so inconspicuous that it never figures in car-window 

 notes. But it has a fairly wide distribution, from North Carolina 

 to west Fliroda and southeastern Mississippi. It is not confined to 

 the pine-barrens,"!- but grows equally well in the region of mixed pine 

 and hardwood forests a little farther inland, also among the fall-line 

 sandhills, and even in a few places among the mountains of jSTorth 

 Carolina, over 2,000 feet above sea-level.:|: Apparently no one has 

 yet photographed it in its natural surroundings. 



Sarracenia Sledgei is intermediate in many respects between the 

 preceding species and the next, and might be regarded as a hybrid 

 between them, but for the fact that it grows in many places far re- 

 moved from either. (Of course it is conceivable that a plant of 

 hybrid origin might perpetuate itself and extend its range over a 

 considerable territory, and it has been suggested that many if not 

 most species have originated in that way ; but no authentic case of a 

 self-perpetuating hybrid growing under perfectly natural conditions 

 seems to be known.) 



The oldest known specimens of this plant were collected by Thomas 

 Drummond in southeastern Louisiana in 1832; but it was quite gen- 

 erally confused with 8. flava until separated by Professor J. M. Mac- 

 farlane of the University of Pennsylvania, our greatest authority on 

 this family of plants, in 1904. At that time, however, he erroneously 

 identified it with Elliott's S. Cateshaei (of which more anon). Dis- 

 covering his error a couple of years later, the plant was left without 



*See Plant World 12:253-254. 1909; Plant Life of Hartsville, p. 80. 1912. 



fFor a map showing the ai)proximate location of the southeastern pine-barrens see Journal 

 of Geography 15:42. Oct. 1916. 



tAn amateur botanist in middle Georgia told me several years ago that he had seen a Sarra- 

 cenia in the northern part of Newton County; which is the only record of the occurrence of 

 that genus in Georgia outside of the coastal plain. I never had an opportunity to visit the 

 locality, but would not be much surprised to find S. rubra there. 



