Distribution of Sarracenta Catesbaei, Ell. 427 
tube in the form of a friar’s cowl. This cowl expands itself 
till the leaf is at full bigness, having its inside of a yellowish 
green, veined with purple.” 
Catesby’s herbarium specimens are now deposited in the 
herbarium of the Botanical Department of South Kensing- 
ton Museum, and an inspection of these during the past 
Spring proved that both accurately agreed with Catesby’s 
drawings and belong to the species S. fava. Elliott was 
therefore mistaken in founding his species on any specimens 
collected by Catesby. I have been unable as yet to learn 
where Macbride’s specimens, sent to Elliott, were deposited 
and if they are still in existence. But in his monograph of 
the genus, Croom says (page 104): “Elliott’s Sarracenia, 
Catesbaet, is, as I have ascertained by the inspection of his 
herbarium, scarcely even a variety of this species, and differs 
from the ordinary form of the plant only by the more con- 
spicuous veins and pubescence of the lamina. It agrees very 
well with the figure in Catesby, which Elliott refers to his 
S. Catesbaet, while both Willdenow and Pursh quote the 
same figure as belonging to S. flava.” 
Founding, therefore, on Elliott’s description alone, a 
species is indicated by “its throat which is straight and not 
expanded, by its appendix of which the sides are not 
reflected,” and it is further distinguished by its “hairy 
appendix.” Elliott is in error, however, when he says “‘it 
differs also from the S. flava by its darkly colored purple 
veins,’ for in this respect, varieties of S. fava, S. Catesbaet 
and S. rubra may perfectly agree. The next reference to the 
plant is made in Nuttall’s paper of 1830 on S. calceolata, 
where he associated in one generic subgroup “S. flava and S. 
Catesbyana, lately restored by Mr. Elliott. In these the 
flowers are yellow.” 
In the seventh edition of Eaton’s “Manual of Botany” 
(page 508), S. Catesbaet is defined as having “leaves stiffly 
erect, tube funnel-form, lateral wing linear, throat straight, 
appendage erect, subreniform, reticulate with colored veins.” 
This description is evidently drawn from that of Elliott. 
