DIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Pliiffuicula. 27 



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streaks. Caps, inversely heart-shaped, broad, compressed, finely 

 downy all over, as well as fringed. Seeds obovate, flat, very 

 thin 3 corrugated minutely at one side. 



10. PINGUICULA. Butterwort. 



Linn. Gen. 13. Juss. 98. Fl. Br. 26. Sm. in Rees's Cijd. v. 27. 

 Tourn. t. 74. Lam. t.\4. GcErtn. t.\\2. 



Nat. Ord. Corijdalcs. Linn. 24. Lysimachicc. Juss. 34, 

 LentihidariiC. Br. Pr. 429. n. 1 1 the same. 



[The Lientibularicc^ separated as an Order from Primidacece, 

 see Grammar 96, are thus characterized by Mr. Brown, 

 Prodr. 429. 



" Calyx divided, permanent. Corolla monopetalous, inferior, 

 irregular, with a sjiur and 2 lips. Stam. 2, concealed 

 withm the corolla, and attached to its lower part. An- 

 tliers simple, sometimes contracted in the middle. Gcr- 

 mcn of 1 cell. Style 1, very short. Stigma with 2 lips. 

 Capside of 1 cell, with a large central receptacle. Seeds 

 numerous, small, destitute of cdbumen ; emhryo sometimes 

 undivided (or monocotyledonous). 



Herbs growing in water, or in marshy situations. Leaves 

 radical, either imdivided, or compound, resembling rcTots, 

 and bearing small bladdery appendages. Floicer-stalAs 

 radical, with or without small scales, resembling stijndas 

 (rather bracteas); sometimes furnished with whorled 

 bladders; for the most part they are unbranched, and 

 either single-flowered, or bearing many flowers in a spike 

 or cluster. Each Jloiver is accompanied by a single 

 bractea, rarely wanting." 



According to Richard, the embryo is monocotyledonous 

 throughout this whole Order; and Mr. Brown has found 

 it so in Utricularla, but in Pinguicida lie observed 2 

 very certain cotyledons. Here therefore is an exception 

 to one of those distinctions, generally presumed most ab- 

 solute ; nor is it a solitary instance. 



Althouf^h the difference between a reojular and an irreofular 

 Jlo'joer is by no means sufficient, in general, to constitute 

 a separate Natural Oixler, (see Liiridcc in Pentandria Mo~ 

 nogynia) ; yet in the present case that difference is con- 

 firmed by so many additional circumstances, that few 

 Orders can be better defined, or more obvious, than that 

 of the Lentibidaricc.'] 



