CATESBY PITCHERPLANT 
Sarracenia catesbaez Elliott 
This pitcherplant was discovered by Mark Catesby, who explored 
the Carolinas in 172.2, and was later named in his honor by Stephen 
Elliott, in his “Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia.” 
Thete is a difference of opinion among present-day botanists as to its 
status, some agreeing with Elliott that it is a distinct species, while 
others hold it to be a hybrid between Sarracenia flava and S. purpurea. 
It does combine the charactets of the two presumptive parents in a 
striking way,—in the shape and position of the leaves, in the size of 
the flower parts, and especially in the petal color, which exhibits an 
atttactive mingling of the yellow of the one species with the matoon 
of the other. 
Catesby pitcherplant is reported to occur from Florida to North 
Carolina, although always tate and local. The specimen painted was 
grown in the Department of Agriculture greenhouses by Dr. Fred- 
erick V.Coville, the root having been collected by Dr. Edgar T. Wherry 
in a swamp neat Quincy, Florida, in 1925. Dr.Wherty states that this 
plant grew in association with the two species of which it is supposed 
to be a ctoss, but that the adult clump was surrounded by seedlings 
in such a manner as to indicate that it is capable of reproducing itself, 
and is, accordingly, on the way to becoming an independent species. 
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