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PETER OSBECK'S 



VOYAGE to CHINA. 



Oclober 24th. 



TO-DAY I had another opportunity of 

 gathering plants near the watering- 

 place : 



Utricularia bifida [Tab. iii. fig. 2. a. b.] 

 is a plant which looks very like our Swedijb 

 Utricularia 'vulgaris, but is fomewhat lefs. It 

 grew in a valley in low fwampy ground, which 

 however was not under water. As this plant 

 had never been found before, I immediately 

 drew up the following delcription : the calyx 

 is diphyllous : the foliola are oval, excavated, 

 perfiftent : the corolla is ringent : the upper" 



Vol.. II. B lip 



