28 DIANDR1A— MONOGYNIA. Pinguieula. 



PlNGUICULA. 



Cal. small, r in gent, permanent; upper lip erect, 3-cleft; 

 lower reflexed, divided. Cor, ringent, more or less 

 equally 5-cleft in the border; with a spur from the base 

 behind. Stam. cylindrical, their anthers clapped close to 

 the stigma. Gemnen globose. Style very short. Stigma 

 unequally 2-lipped. Caps, of 2 valves at the top. Seeds 

 numerous, cylindrical, on a central unconnected recep- 

 tacle. 



Herbaceous, perennial, without stems. Leaves numerous, 

 undivided, entire, involute, mostly glutinous. Fl. several, 

 drooping, blue, purplish, or white with some yellow, on 

 simple, naked, radical stalks. 



1. P. lusitanica. Pale Butterwort. 



Nectary obtuse, shorter than the nearly regular petal. 

 Flower-stalk hairy. Capsule globose. 



P. lusitanica. Linn. Sp. PL 25. mild. v. 1. 109. Vahl Enum. 

 v. I. 192. FL Br. 26. Engl. Bot. v. 3. t. 145. Hook. Scot. 8. 



P. villosa. Huds.S. Light/ Scot. 77. t. 6 ; excluding synonyms. 



P. flore minore carneo. Raii Syn. *281 . 



Viola palustris, Pinguieula dicta, lusitanica. Grisl. Virid. 84. 



On the borders of bogs in Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Devonshire and 

 Cornwall, as well as in Ireland, the west of Scotland and its 

 islands. Most plentiful in Sutherland, according to Professor 

 Hooker, on the wet moors adjoining Cape Wrath. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Boot fleshy. Leaves pale green, semipellucid, with numerous red 

 veins. Flower-stalks 3 or 4 inches high, clothed, especially in 

 their lower part, with viscid hairs. Ft. pale lilac ; the throat 

 yellow streaked with red; spur yellow. e( Leaves permanent 

 in winter." Mr. Drummond. 



2. P. vulgaris. Common Butterwort. Yorkshire 

 Sanicle. 



Nectary cylindrical, acute, as long as the very irregular pe- 

 tal. Segments of the calyx oblong. Capsule ovate. 



P. vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PL 25. mild. v. J. 1 10. Vahl Enum. 

 v. J. 191. Fl.Br.27. Engl. Bot. v. 1. t. 70. FLDan.t.93. 

 Poit. ^ Turp. Par. 27. t. 29. Hook. Lond. t. 104. Scot. 8. 



P. Gesneri. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 546./. Raii Syn. *281. 



P. sive Sanicula Eboracensis. Ger. Em. 788./. 



On bogs, and moist heaths, especiallv in the North, as well as in 



Norfolk. 

 Perennial. May, June. 



