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am acquainted with it, it has always been growing in bogs, a kind of 

 soil unknown in the submaritiuie regions of our Southern States. 

 How far north it extends there are no means of ascertaining ; it 

 has been seen in the southern portions of the Labrador coast. The 

 other species are all confined to the Southern States. The jiava 

 is more abundant in the middle parts of North Carolina. In the 

 neighborhood of Fayettevilie it covers the ground in immense pro- 

 fusion ; and flowering at the same time and intermixed with the 

 splendid Iris tripeta.a hus a most beautiful effect. 



The rubra first appears a little farther south, but it is by no 

 means common. The variolaris is confined to a distance of about 

 30 miles from the sea shore, in South Carolina and Georgia, in moist 

 pine forests. 



As for the Catesbsei of Elliott, it is quite a distinct species, and 

 as far as I know it only grows in those parts of the country point- 

 ed out by the author from whom it received its name. It has late- 

 ly been thought proper to erase this species from our Flora, but 

 whatever errors Mr. Elliott may have committed in other in- 

 stances, in this he was certainly right. It is too much the custom 

 with naturalists to pronounce opinions on objects described by 

 others which they have never seen ; I have myself much to com- 

 plain of in this respect, and may at some future time take occasion 

 to notice what I have suffered from the whims of others. 



With all these species of Sarracenia I was once very familiar, 

 and their forms and peculiarities have not left my memory ; for 

 years they were always before my eyes, and their distinctive char- 

 acters indelibly impressed upon my mind. 



The locality of the psittacina with which I am acquainted is the 

 immense pine forest to the south west of the Altamaha, between 

 that river and Florida. 



A word or two about the cultivation of these highly ornamental 

 plants : they should be planted in a mixture of black vegetable 

 earth, such as is procured from the crevices of rocks, and white 

 sand, in equal quantities, with a small quantity of powdered char- 

 coal. They require to be profusely watered. J. LC. 



