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PINGUICULA lutea. 
Yellow american Butterwort. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Lysimacuim. Jussieu gen. 95. Div. III. Genera 
Lysimachiis affinia. 
LENTIBULARIUE. Cal, divisus persistens. Cor, 1-pe- 
tala, hypogyna, irregularis, calcarata, bilabiata. Stam. indlusa, ime 
corolla inserta. Anth. simplices, nunc medio constricte. Germ. 1-loc. 
Stylus 1, brevissimus. Stigma bilabiatum. Caps. 1-loc., polysperma; 
placenta centrali magna. Sem. parva, exalbuminosa. Embryo nunc 
indivisus. Herbe aquatica v. paludose. Brown prod. 429. 
PINGUICULA. Cal. bilabiatus, suprà trifidus, infrà 2-fidus 
Cor. irregularis, basi calcarata, fauce coarctata, limbo bilabiata, superiìs 
triloba, inferiús biloba brevior. Stam. brevissima. Stylus brevis; 
stigma bilamellatum, antheras tegens. Caps. receptaculo centrali libero. 
Folia radicalia pinguia ; scapus \-florus ; flos inversus. Jussieu gen. 98. 
P. lutea, nectario subulato recurvo corollá campanulatâ breviore, fauce 
- barbatâ, labiis dentatis, scapo subvilloso. Vahl enum. 1. 193. 
Pinguicula lutea. Walt. carol. 63. Michaux bor. amer. 1. 11. Pursh 
amer. sept. 1.14. Persoon Fa 1,4 17, 
P. campanulata. Lamarck in Journ. d'hist. nat. 1. 334. tab. 18. fig. 1; 
(de planta siccatá). Persoon syn. 1. 18. 
Perennis. Folia radicalia, plurifaria, imbricato-ambientia, patentia, 
ovaia, obtusa, vesiculis diaphanis conspersa, margine inflexá, subuncialia. 
Scapi 2-3, filiformes, erecti, 2-7-unciales, pilis capitato-viscidis villosi. Cal. 
cano-virescens, pubescens, segmentis obtusis. Cor. sine maculâ flavescens, 2 
uncic transversa obscurê bilabiata ; tubus calyci equalis, extús sub fauce im- 
pressus sulco, et cum calcare venis obsgleté purpureis pictus; limbus ez-. 
planatus, laciniis subcequalibus, labii i (floris resupinatione 
duobus obc rdatis subangustioribus, ¿px PM emarginatis, collaterali-conni- 
vestib IR supremi ab inverstfiores tribus e ualibus, cuneato-obcor- 
datis, subquadricrenatis ; palatum flavo-barbatum, de fauce penicillato-pro- 
minens : calcar corollâ 3-plo magisve brevius, subulatum, sub fauce decurva- 
tum. Germ. oblato-rotundum, obliquum, vesiculari-punctatum; stylus ob- 
soletus; stigma subpetaloideum, transversum, labio antico majore oblato- 
obcordato sub anthesi super antheras revoluto, postico parallelo minimo erecto 
subovato. Stam. albida, collateralia, basi connexa et sub fronte resupinati 
germinis. inserta, instar fer? corniculorum divergentia, dein ancurvatim assur- 
gentia, duplo breviora calyci: fil. robusta, teretia ; anth. peltato-adnate, 
oblato-rotunde, extrorsim obliquate, vertice foramine rotundo dehiscentes : 
pollen ochroleucum. 
By Professor de Jussieu this genus had been appended 
to his order of Lysimachie, not however as a genuine co- 
ordinate, but provisionally, until its relations were more 
