102 Observations on the genus Sarracenia ; 



Habitat. Georgia and Florida. " Ab urbe Augusta 

 Georgia? and Floridam." Michaux. Tatnall County, Ga., and 

 10 miles west of Tallahassee, Florida. Nutall. Near Quincy, 

 Fla. Dr. A. W. Chapman. Between the Tologie and the 

 Appalachicola, in wet pine woods ! Flowers March to April. 



Observations. Leaves 3 — 4 inches long, reclinate, with 

 reticulate purple veins, and whitish diaphanous spots, like those 

 of S. variolaris, but smaller. The autumnal leaves are longer, 

 and vary somewhat from the vernal in form and appearance, 

 especially in the longitudinal wing. They are about six inches 

 in length. Tube ventricose. Lamina very curiously incurved 

 and fornicated, almost closing the tube, and looking not unlike 

 the head of a parrot, as Michaux has remarked. Scape about 

 a foot high. Flower reddish-purple. Even this species, not- 

 withstanding the smallness of the aperture of the tube , acts as a 

 fly-catcher. Indeed when they have once entered through this 

 small orifice, their condition is more hopeless than in any of the 

 other species. 



This species of Michaux was long lost to our botanists. 

 Pursh united it with S. Rubra of Walter, the incongruity of 

 which is evident. Still, as the plant had not been found since 

 Michaux's time, Nuttall, who adopted the error of Pursh, when 

 he at length found the plant, considered it as new, and describ- 

 ed it in the work we have already referred to. Influenced by 

 the opinions of others, and not having seen the description of 

 Nuttall's S. calceolata, I mentioned it as new under the name 

 of S. pulchella. But I am now satisfied of its identity with 

 S. psittacina of Michaux, whose description agrees accurately 

 with this plant. Their Habitat also agrees. 



5. Sarracenia variolaris, Michaux. 



S. foliis longiusculis suberectis, tubo paulo ventricoso superne 

 dorso maculato, ala lineari — lanceolata, lamina incurvata for- 

 nicata, florc flavo. 



