

316 Botanical Communications. 



12. Pinckneya pubens. 



Grows plentifully in sphagnous swamps of Florida and Southern 



Georgia. 



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13. Acacia farnesiana. 

 Grows on the banks of the Mississippi, near New Orleans. 



14. Petalostemon corymbosum. 



Grows abundantly on the poorest soils of Florida and Southern 

 Georgia. 



15. Oxycoccus macrocarpus. 

 Grows abundantly in some of the swamps in the North Eastern 



part of North Carolina. ' 



16. Cupressus thyoides. (White Cedar, Juniper.) 



Grows in some of the swamps of Florida, and in those of Alabama 

 between Mobile and Pascagoula. 



III. Remarks upon the genus Sarracenia. 



Ever since I met with the species of Sarracenia, of which I gave 

 some account in the number of this Journal for October last, under 

 the name of S. pulchella, I have felt a suspicion that it is the true origi- 

 nal of Michaux's S. psittacina, which later botanists have united with 

 S. rubra, Walt, from which this species is very distinct, and forming 

 apparently an intermediate species between S. variolaris and S. rubra. 

 Mr. Elliott, has remarked the discrepancy between Michaux's de- 

 scription of his S. psittacina, and Walter's S. rubra, particularly in 

 the " recurved, fornicated appendix" of the former. Michaux's de- 

 scription of his S. psittacina applies very well to the species under 

 consideration. As quoted by Pursh it is as follows : " Foliis brevi- 

 bus, superne coloratis, venoso-reticulatis, ala ventrali, sursum sub- 

 cuneatim latescente, tubo sensim in appendicem recurvatam rotunda- 

 tim fornicatam mucronatam desinente." As I before remarked, the 

 appendix of this species, resembles the head of a parrot, and it is the 

 only species in which such a resemblance is striking. The leaves too 

 are shorter than those of either of the other species, and therefore pe- 

 culiarly deserving the application of the word " brevibus" while those 

 of S. rubra, so far as my observation has extended, are as long, as and 

 even longer than those of S. variolaris. The white spots on the 

 leaves, which I have mentioned, may be what Michaux intended by 

 the term coloratis, while their purple veins (which I omitted to men- 

 tion,) are well expressed by " venoso-reticulatis" In my former ac- 





