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Sarracenia Druinmondii (PL 5) has leaves of about the same size 

 and shape as those of S. fiava, exce])t for heiii<j; a trifle slenderer : Vnit 

 the upper ])arts arc white with a network of reddish veins, and the 

 lower parts ^reen ; the hoods are covered wdth stiff hairs on the inner 

 surface, and the flowers are red. It produces some sword-like leaves 

 in the fall, l)ur not so regularly or abundantly as does N. fiava. 



This handsome plant w^as apparently first noticed near Pensacola, 

 Florida, early in August, 1775 (or 1777?*) by William Bartram, a 

 noted naturalist of that time, who attempted to describe it in his 

 Travels (1701) under the name of *S'. laciinosa; but he seems to have 

 gotten S. minor, which does not grow so far west (or possibly S. 

 Sledgei, which does not grow so far east) mixed with it in his mem- 

 ory, for his description fits 8. minor better. C. C. Robin, a French 

 explorer who was not a botanist, traveled through the South from 

 1802 to 1806, saw the same plant near the same place, and published 

 a recognizable description of it in his narrative (1807), although he 

 mistook the leaves for flowers, as many other non-botanists have done 

 since. The erratic naturalist Ilafinesque ten years later dug out this 

 description and applied the name Sarracenia UucophylJa to it, but 

 that has never been taken seriously on account of Rafiuesque's well- 

 known eccentricity and his rather unwarranted procedure in giving a 

 name to a plant he had never seen, on the strength of an imperfect 

 description. The spe(!ies was first properly described in 188(5 by 

 H. B. Croom, wlio did not refer to Bertram or Robin, but had seen 

 specimens collected near Appalachicola by Drummond in 1835 and 

 by Chapman in 1836. (These same old specimens are now in the 

 Torrey Herl)arium at the New York Botannical Garden.) 



It is known in a few places in scmthwest Georgia, and inland in 

 Alabama as far as Crenshaw County, is abundant in west Florida 

 and southwestern Alabama, but stops rather abruptly near the Ala- 

 bama-Mississippi line. It grows in sandy bogs, and especially in the 

 .wet gently sloping savannas which arc very characteristic ot tli(> I'oun- 



-The dafPS in dilTiTcnt <liu|itprs of Biirtrani's TruvoU aro inconsistent, iintl no on.. K.-onm lo 

 l.HVi- (Iflennined whirl, on.-s nw (om-.t. Tl.i-ro is a littU- <ont.-ni|.orury pvuI.m..-.- in D.irln.fc- 

 ton's "Letters of Biirlriiin aiwl .M»ij*1i»II." an<l nu.re may yet turn up. 



