18 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Utricularia. 



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On the N. West side of Malvern hills, but not on the S. or 

 S. E, side. Mr. Ballard.] P. May.* 



UTRICULA'RIA. Bloss. gaping, ending in a spur: 



Cal. 1 leaves, equal : Caps, i cell. 



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vulga'ris, U. Nectary conical : stalk with few flowers. 



E. hot. 253-FI. dan. 138-Rw. 79~Peti<v. 36. ll-Ger.em. 



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828. 5-J. B. 



at the bottom. 



Calyx permanent ; its lower leaf very slightly notched at the 

 end. Bloss. full yellow ; with purplish red streaks. Nectary co- 

 nical, blunt, lined with minute, shining, globular glands. Fila- 

 ments thick, fleshy, crooked ; fixed to the base of the germen. 

 Summit 2 lips ; one very small ; the other broad, flat, thin, fringed 

 at the edge. After the impregnation of the germen, this larger 

 lip closes the aperture of the style. Stalk cylindrical, scaly to- 

 wards the top, and dividing into three. Leaves in whirls ; thread- 

 shaped, greatly branched and forked ; set with minute whitish 

 harmless thorns, and hollow bags, which have a glandular ap- 

 pearance ; they contain a transparent watery fluid, and a small 

 bubble of air. They are pear-shaped, but rather compressed ; 

 with an open border at the small end, from the edges of which 

 arise 3 or 4* very slender fibres, which perhaps are the real roots 

 of the plant. This fluid, when greatly magnified, appears to 

 contain a quantity of extremely minute solid particles. 



Hooded Water-mtlfoile. Greater Bladdersnout. Wet ditches 

 and stagnant waters* [Ancot pool, near Salop. Mr, Aikii 

 In shallow waters on Birmingham Heath.] P. J 



* I f the fresh gathered leaves are put into the filtre or strainer through 

 which warm milk from the rein-deer is poured, and the milk is set by for 

 a day or two to become ascescent, it acquires consistence and tenacity ; the 

 whey does not separate, nor does the cream : in this state it is an extremely 

 grateful food, and as such is used by the inhabitants in the north of Swe- 

 den. There is no further occasion to have recourse to the leaves, for 

 half a spoonful of this prepared milk, mixed with fresh warm milk, will 

 convert it to its own nature ; and this again will change another quantity 

 of fresh milk, and so on without end. Linn. — (This did not succeed when 

 tried with cows milk. Mr. Hawkes.) — The juice of the leaves kills lice; 

 the common people use it to cure cracks or chops in cows udders. Linn- 

 — The plant is generally supposed injurious to sheep; occasioning a dis- 

 ease which the farmers call the rot. But it may be made a question, 

 whether the rot in sheep is so much owing to the vegetables in marshy 

 grounds, as to a fiat insect called a duke (Fasiofa hepatica) which is found 

 in these wet situations adhering to the stones and plants, and likewise in 

 the livers and biliary ducts of sheep that are airccted with the rot. — From 

 experiments made on purpose, and conducted with accuracy, it appears, 

 that neither sheep, cows, horses, goats, nox swine, will feed upoathis 

 plant. 



