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wide divergence in geographic distribution, indicate rather clearly 

 the necessity for keeping them separate. 



George V. Nash. 



New York Botanical Garden. 



Sark.acenia fi.ava in Virginia. — Early on the morning of 

 June 17, 1904, while coming up through Virginia on the Sea- 

 board Air Line, I saw from the train, in Dinwiddie County, seven 

 miles below Petersburg, a colony (containing probably several 

 hundred individuals) of Sarracenia flava. As I was traveling at 

 the rate of about a mile a minute, I did not have time to exam- 

 ine its habitat very closely, but the plants seemed to be grow- 

 ing in a sort of meadow, just as I have seen them in North Caro- 

 lina, about forty miles farther south. (See Torreya, 3: 123, 

 124. August, 1903.) This locality is probably a few miles 

 west of the fall-line, though this fact does not preclude the pos- 

 sibility of its being on some comparatively recent formation. 



This seems to be the northernmost known station for Sarra- 

 ccnia flava (latitude ■i^'j° 8'). Although the species is credited 

 to Virginia in most manuals of the Northern States (probably on 

 the authority of Clayton and other pre-Linnaean botanists), I 

 have seen no specimens from that state, and none are cited in 

 Gray's Synoptical Flora or in Kearney's Dismal Swamp report. 

 I have, however, just found a record of one other Virginia station 

 for it. Prof. Lester F. Ward (Bot. Gaz. 11 : ij , i^. February, 

 1886), mentions seeing specimens collected in the summer of 

 1885 by \V J McGee in "a swamp in a pine wood, two miles 

 north of Rowanty Creek " (presumably near the fall-line). From 

 examination of a map it seems that my station must be a few- 

 miles northwest of his, near the head of th4 same creek. 



That portion of the railroad on which I was traveling at the 

 time above mentioned has been in operation only four or five 

 years, and the country adjacent to it is probably little known to 

 botanists, though I know of several who have already passed 

 through it on trains. 



Roland M. Harper. 



College Point, N. V. 



