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pet-shaped. Wing very narrow and linear. Lamina nearly 

 orbicular, contracted at base, and thickly clothed on the inner 

 surface with conspicuous hairs. The upper part of the tube 

 and the lamina, on every side, reticulate with purple veins, 

 with the interstices white ; the maculation larger and more dif- 

 fused than in S. Variolaris. 



The tube of one of the specimens which we have of this 

 species contains, besides other dead insects, a large butterfly, 

 (Papilio Turnus) ! 



I have described this species from specimens in the herba- 

 rium of Dr. Torrey, who received a few leaves, without flowers, 

 from Sir William Jackson Hooker, to whom they had been 

 sent by Drummond, from Appalachicola in 1835. In the 

 spring of the present year (1836) Dr. A. W. Chapman ob- 

 tained the plant in flower in the neighbourhood of Appalachi- 

 cola, and gave a specimen to Dr. Torrey, by whose kindness I 

 have been permitted to describe it here. 



From the very hairy lamina or appendix of this plant, its 

 reticulate veins, and the size and form of its leaves, a suspicion 

 was at first excited that this might be Elliott's S. Catesbcei, but 

 its purple flower and remarkable maculation entirely separate 

 it from that plant, which is no other than a variety of S. flava. 



4. Sarracenia psittacina, Michaux. 



S. foliis brevibus reclinatis venoso-reticulatis albo-maculatis, 

 tubo venticoso, ala sursum subcuneatim latescente, lamina re- 

 curvata subgloboso — inflata carinata muronata tubum pene 

 claudente, ore subrotundo parvo, flore purpureo. 



Sarracenia psyttacina, Mich. Ft. Bor. Am. I. p. 311. 

 Sarracenia calceolata, Null. Trans. Am. Ph. Soc. IV. p. 49. 

 Sarracenia pulchella, Croom in Sill. Journ. Oct. 1S33. 

 Icon, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. IV.pl. 1. 



