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at two places about a mile apart near Americiis, Georgia, I found 

 a few specimens corresponding verv well with that illustration (which 

 happened to come into niv possession in the former year). S. rubra 

 and S. Drummondii were growing close by in both places, but the 

 nearest known station for S. fiava was (and is) over twenty-five miles 

 away, which made me doubt the possibility of that's being one of the 

 parents, or of my plant being a hybrid at all. The flowers were un- 

 known to me, as they were to Pitcher tSc Manda. In 1903* I referred 

 it to the problematical (and likewise flowerless) S. Cateshaei, but 

 Professor Macfarlane's investigations of that i)laiit, published in 

 1907, showed that I was mistaken. In June. 190(5, I found some very 

 similar plants (illustrated herewith) about three miles east of Geneva, 

 Alabama, in company with *S'. Drummondii, though here again there 

 was no S. flava (nor S. rubra) in sight. But in the meanwhile Profes- 

 sor Macfarlane in 1905 had found plants whose hybrid origin was evi- 

 dent near Bay Minette, Alabama. 



The occurrence of this plant remote from one of its supposed 

 parents is somewhat of a puzzle. Whether S. fara had once grown 

 nearer by and its hybrid progeny had maintained itself independently 

 for a long period, or the pollen can be carried by insects much farther 

 than we realize, or the supposed hybrid is really a nuitation or a valid 

 species, remains to be proved. 



One compound natural hybrid has been reported by Professor Mac- 

 farlane, who has found near Ponce de Leon, Florida, what appears to 

 be S. purpurea x flava crossed again with S. flava. The artificial 

 hybrids that have no known wild counterparts need not be discussed 

 here, as they are known only in European greenhouses and have no 

 status as American plants. 



The known distribution of the species of Sarracenia in the United 

 States may be summed up by States as follows: East of the Great 

 Plains and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers S. purpurea is found 

 in every State, with no other species of the genus. In West 

 Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee apparently no pitcher-plant has 

 been seen by any botanist now living, though ^S*. purpurea has been 



'■Bull. Torrev Bot. Club 30: 333-335. 1903. 



