430 Macfarlane on the History, Structure and 
cenia House of the University Botanic Garden, and began 
to bloom within three weeks. They, as well as the Sledge 
and Gayfer specimens, continued to bloom throughout the 
succeeding month, each flower lasting, on the average, for 
seventeen days. They varied from a pale lemon-straw color 
to almost white, and in size were intermediate between those 
of S. flava and S. variolaris. Their identity with S. flava 
picta of the Kew, Edinburgh, Glasgow and other botanic 
gardens was fully established. 
A review of the past descriptions of the species may now 
be given as follows: Elliott’s short, but exact description of 
the pitchers, strongly indicates that his specimens represented 
a form distinct from, but which up to that time had not been 
distinguished from, S. fava. Nuttall * accepted Elliott’s 
diagnostic description and further added that the flower is 
yellow. Eaton’s description is equally exact, though it seems 
to have been drawn from that of Elliott or Nuttall. Mohr 
seems to refer to S. Catesbaei, but the specimens from Little 
River near DeSoto Falls are unquestionably those of S. flava, 
as the writer has had the opportunity of inspecting these 
through the kindness of Dr. Smith, head of the Alabama 
Geological Survey. Small’s description, which is the fullest 
hitherto published, is thoroughly diagnostic, but statements 
made by some of the writers might suggest that they were 
dealing with natural hybrids, which are not uncommon in 
the Southern States. Thus at least one would very closely 
apply to wild hybrids between S. fava and S. variolaris, such 
as the writer has collected near Summerville, S. C. That 
similar hybrids have been already sent out under mistaken 
determination, is shown by sheets in the United States 
National Herbarium, the Gray Herbarium at Harvard and 
the Berlin Herbarium, distributed to two of these places by 
R. M. Harper as S. Catesbaei, but which are evidently 
natural hybrids of S. Drummondu and the crimson throated 
form of S. flava that is common in Georgia. 
After a careful study of the species, alike in the field and 
*Trans-Amer. Phil. Soc. V. 4, p. 49. 
