Distribution of Sarracenia Catesbaet, Ell. 431 
under cultivation, the following diagnostic description can 
be given: 
Rhizome stout, elongated; leaves erect, 30 to 75 cm. 
high, gradually expanding into a pitcher upward, veins 
prominent, median flap widest in the middle, tapered 
below and above into a slight ridge; pitcher rim narrow, 
sharply recurved, orifice 2% to 3 cm. across; lid ovate- 
cordate, nearly erect or arching, base of lid flat or very 
slighily recurved; inner surface traversed by radiating 
purple veins, and sharply divisible into an attractive surface 
over tts upper two-thirds and conducting surface over its 
lower third, attractive surface covered with fine, evident 
down-directed hairs; base of lid and upper interior of tube 
with longitudinal purple veins and oblique, intermediate, 
reticulate veins. Flowers nearly equal to or slightly longer 
than the spring leaves, decurved, from lemon-yellow to 
nearly white, 5 to 6 cm. broad. Sepals ovate, narrowed 
at base, 3.5 to 4.5 cm. long by 2.5 to 3.5 cm. broad, at first 
greenish-yellow, becoming lemon or pale yellow during flow- 
ering; petals fiddle-shaped with strongly recurved edges, at 
the medtan constricted part 4.5 to 7.5 cm. long by 2 to 3.5 
cm. at widest portion, rounded at the free end. Style pen- 
tagonal-repand, 4 to 7 cm. across; style arms beyond stigmas 
4mm. Capsule I to 1.5 cm. across. Flowers lasting about 
seventeen days. Odor delicate, agreeable. 
The annual duration of the leaves of this species stand in 
the following relation to the other six species of the genus. 
Those of S. fava spring up in April, and are largely withered 
and brown in October; those of S. rubra last till the end of 
November or into December, the autumn leaves of S. Drum- 
mondi last till February or March of the succeeding year; 
those of S$. Catesbaet remain green and fresh till the end of 
April, when a new crop has been produced; those of S. 
variolaris, psittacina and purpurea last still longer and in 
the order indicated. 
Nothing has been learned as to the source or time of dis- 
