1918] The Americax Pitciier-Plaxts 123 



America (locality not specified), and was thought to be a natural 

 hybrid between purpurea and flava. In June, 1893, Professor Mac- 

 farlane found two specimens, in company with the parent species, 

 near Wilmington, N. C, where their hybrid origin was practically 

 certain. In 1905 he found 117 specimens of the same thing in one 

 day in Holmes County, Florida, and a few in Baldwin County, Ala- 

 bama. The same two species were crossed to make one of the first 

 artificial hybrids in the genus, in 1874. 



S. purpurea x Drummondii was discovered in company with its 

 parents in Baldwin County, Alabama, by Professor Macfarlane in 

 1905, and in the northern part of Walton County, Florida, by the 

 writer in 1911, Artificial hybrids with this parentage were described 

 in England in 1887. 



S. psittacina x minor was found by the writer in Colquitt County, 

 Georgia, in 1902, and in Coffee, Irwin (now Ben Hill), and Wilcox 

 counties in 1904.* All these localities are in the Altamaha Grit 

 region or rolling wire-gTass country. This hybrid produces flowers 

 and fruit more freely than most of the olJiers. Artificial hybrids 

 were known in England as long ago as 1881, under the name of 

 *S'. formosa. 



S. flava X minor (PI. 6). Xo artificial hybrid between these two 

 yellow-flowered species is certainly known, but in 1901 I found a sin- 

 gle specimen of the natural hybrid in Bulloch County, Georgia, and 

 the following year several others in Coffee County.f Of the photo- 

 grai)lis taken at the latter place in 1002 and 1904 two have been 

 ])ublislied already, and another appears here. Professor Macfarlane 

 found the same thing near Summerville, S. C, in 1903. 



>S'. flava X Drummomlii (PL 6). These two species were probably 

 the first to be crossed artificially, this having been done by Dr. David 

 Moore at Glasnevin, Ireland, in 1873, or thereabouts. The first inti- 

 mation of a natural hybrid between them seems to be in the 1S93 cata- 

 logue of Pitcher k ^fanda, florists, of Short Hills, N. .1., wliere there 

 is a full-i)age halftone of a |ilaiit called Sarrdcenia Mamiaiaua, said to 

 "have be<m collected growing in company with S. flava and *S'. Drum- 

 mondii, of which it is no donht a natni-ai hybrid." Tn 1S!>5 and 1901, 



♦Bull. Torrev Hot. Oliil) :W: '2:10. U;!?. li)0(i. 



tRull. Torrcy Bot. Club 31: 2'J. 1904; :«: 463. 1905. 



