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to middle Florida (Wakulla (\)uiity), and westward to Baldwin 

 County, Alabama, where it is rather scarce. Its ranoe does not 

 seem to (]uite meet that of its near relative, *S'. Sledgei. In jSTorth 

 Carolina it is common among the fall-line sandhills (where a traveler 

 on the main line of the Seaboard Air Line can see it any day in 

 summer), as well as nearer the coast, and it is known also in the 

 Piedmont region ; but in Georgia it seems to be confined to the pine- 

 barrens. 



Several minor horticiiltural varieties of this species, based on color 

 ditferences, have been described, and there is a wild variety that 

 deserves special mention. In northeastern Alabama, particularly on 

 the (Himberland Plateau in j\larshall, Jackson, and DeKalb counties, 

 and in the Coosa Valley in Cherokee County, in moist sandy places 

 near streams, is a plant similar to ^S'. flava, but not typical of that 

 species. It was found by two or three collectors in the last decade of 

 the nineteenth century, and was referred by Dr. Charles Mohr in his 

 viagnum opus, the plant life of Alabama,* to the long-lost ^S*. Catesbaei 

 of Elliott, which was described from South Carolina three-quarters 

 of a century before. Almost contemporaneously Mr. T. H. Kearney, 

 in a discussion of the distribution of certain coastal-plain plants rep- 

 resented by identical or closely related forms in the Southern moun- 

 tains,! applied the name Sarracenia flava var. oreophila to it, but 

 gave no description. Besides the slight differences pointed out by 

 Dr. Mohr, who saw the plant only in summer, there is another that 

 may be important. The sword-like winter leaves, instead of being 

 nearly straight as in the pine-barren form illustrated herewith, are 

 strongly recurved, and considerably shorter than the summer leaves. 

 But this plant should be studied a little more before it is formally 

 named. What appears to be the same thing was collected, probably 

 in the third quarter of the last century, by Dr. Hugh M. ]S[eisler, who 

 lived at Butler, Georgia, among the fall-line sandhills, and presuma- 

 bly got his specimens somew^iere in that neighborhood. 



*Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 6: 79, 531. 1901. See. also, Mohr. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club •24: 23. 

 1897; Harbison, Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1: 155. 156. 1902; Harper. Torryea 6: 114. 1906. 

 tScience II. 12:833, 837. Nov. 30, 1900. 



