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in honour of Dr. Jean Antoine Sarracin, a botanist of Quebec." 

 Such mistakes have doubtless originated from consultation of 

 Wittstein's and Pritzel's works. 



The subjoined is a brief summary of the facts relating to the 



two botanists : 



Dr. Jean Antoine Saracen, or Sarraeen, a physician of Lyons, 

 France, who issued a translation of Dioscorides in 1598 ; b. 25th 

 April, 1547, d. 29th Nov. 1598. 



Dr. D. Sarrasin, physician, anatomist, and botanist of Quebec. 

 Correspondent of Tournefort, who dedicated the genus Sarracena 

 (Sarracenia L.) to him. Correspondent of, and contributor to, 

 the French Royal Academy of Sciences from 1700 to 1714. 



Died at Quebec (about c. 173( 

 probably incorrectly, Sarrazin. 



Name by some spelt, but 



II. — Sarracenia Catesb^i Elliott. 



In Contrib. Bot. Lab. Univ. Penn. ii. 426 (1904), I have 

 traced the history of a very distinct species of the genus, whose 

 home is in the Gulf States. From Elliott's short description, 

 Dr. Small and the writer inclined to regard it as identical with 

 Elliott's S. Catesbcei. But Elliott's type-specimen is now known 

 to exist in the Charleston Museum, and through the kindness of 

 Professor Rea, I have been able to examine it. Study shows it 

 to be a natural hybrid between 8. fiava and S. purpurea. Such 

 a hybrid is at times frequent throughout the Southern States, 

 and the writer has recently put on record * several localities 

 where it is more or less abundant. Fully two years ago he 

 discovered a typical leaf of the same hybrid in the Sloane Her- 

 barium (xciii. f. 74). Consultation of Ray's Historia, ii. 1344 (1693), 

 shows that that author described this specimen, and fully appre- 

 ciated its differences in comparison with descriptions and figures of 

 S. purpurea, published by Clusius and Parkinson. The specimen 

 must therefore have been collected more than two hundred years 

 ago, and is the oldest example of a hybrid known to us in the genus. 



The Circum-Gulf species, formerly supposed to be identical with 

 Elliott's S. Catesbai, has now been named by the writer S. Sledgei, 

 and the observations made in the Contributions from the Botanical 

 Laboratory accordingly apply to it. 



III. — Sarracenia Drummondii Groom. 



Our knowledge of this species dates much further back than has 

 hitherto been supposed, and opens up nomenclatorial points of 

 some interest. Groom described itf from leaves gathered by 

 Drummond in 1835, and from flowers gathered by Chapman in 

 1836, both collected round Appalachicola. But the plant had been 

 collected, described, and named many years before by W. Bartram, 

 by M. Robin, and by Rafinesque. Before referring to their records, 



* Internal Hybrid. Congress Keport, London, 1906. 

 t Ann. Lye. N. H. of N. York, iv. 100 (1848). 



