The History, Structure and Distribution of 
Sarracenia Catesbaei, Ell. 
By J. M. Macrartang, D. Sc. 
Sarracema Catesbaet was first described by Dr. Stephen 
Elliott in “A Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and 
Georgia.” In Volume II, page 11, he defines it as follows: 
“Leaves firmly erect, tube funnel-shaped, longitudinal wing 
linear, throat straight, appendix erect, somewhat reniform, 
reticulate with colored veins.” He then refers to Table 69, 
Fig. B, of Catesby’s “Illustrations,” and adds: “Leaves 12 
to 18 inches high, regularly tapering to the base; the upper 
part of the leaves and the appendix distinguished by their 
colored veins, the inner surface of the appendix covered by 
long and very conspicuous hair. 
“This plant which has probably been united with the 
S. flava, and which can be connected with no other species, 
appears to me sufficiently distinct; it differs by its rigidly 
erect leaves, by its throat, which is straight and not expand- 
ing, and by its appendix, of which the sides are not reflected. 
It differs also from the S. flava by its darkly colored purple 
veins and heavy appendix. My specimens agree exactly 
with the figure in Catesby, to which I have referred, and 
were collected by Dr. Macbride along the margins of the 
rivulets amidst the high sand hills of Chesterfield district in 
South Carolina. The flowers I have not seen.” 
On reference to Catesby’s original description—which he 
applies to S. fava—uit is said “The leaves of this plant are 
tubulous and ribbed, arising from a knotty fibrous root to 
a height of about three feet; they are small at the root, wid- 
ening gradually to the mouth of the tube, which, in young 
leaves, are closed, but open by degrees as the leaf increaseth ; 
and when near its full growth arches over the mouth of the 
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