598 Harper: DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
note the exact localities. Mr. E. W. Berry tells me that he has 
found it abundant around Yorktown, where there is a tradition 
that it was introduced at the time of the Revolution by Corn- 
wallis’s soldiers. Dr. M. A. Chrysler* reports it as abundant near 
Annapolis, Maryland. 
The last two editions of Gray’s Manual credit this species to 
Virginia ‘‘and southward”; but it is not mentioned in Small’s 
Flora of the Southeastern U. S., or even in Kearney’s Dismal 
Swamp report. 
SARRACENIA FLAVA L. 
Seen about 75 times between Hamlet and Plymouth, North 
Carolina, and nowhere else on this trip (somewhat like Cyrilla 
and Polygala lutea). Kearney found it only near New Bern (and 
placed its northern limit at latitude 35°); and it must be very 
rare north of the Roanoke River, like Cyrilla and several other 
species which have been seen only a few times in Virginia. 
NYMPHAEA SAGITTIFOLIA Walt. 
Common in four coffee-colored (not muddy) creeks or small 
rivers within twenty miles of each other, between Laurinburg 
and Lumberton, North Carolina. (I had seen it at the first three 
of these places while walking from Pembroke to Laurinburg in 
November, 1905.) On Sept. 22, 1794, Michaux found what is 
probably the same species near Fayetteville,t as C. L. Boynton 
did over 100 years later.§ Elliott knew it only from the Peedee 
River, which may perhaps be the type-locality. Wood & Mc- 
Carthy found it near Wilmington. In 1906 I saw it only in ditches 
in the northern corner of Horry County, South Carolina. All 
these localities are within 100 miles of each other. 
I have seen what passes for the same thing in several creeks 
and rivers at sea-level in Santa Rosa County, Florida, but never 
in Georgia or Alabama. [If the material from Indiana and Illinois 
which has been referred to this species is correctly identified it has 
a very peculiar distribution. 
*Plant Life of Maryland, toi, 445. 1910. 
See Torreya 6: 43. 1906. 
{Journal of André Michaux, edited by Cc. s, Sargent. 
§See Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1: 148. 1902. 
