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Sussex. Surrey, Notts ; perliaps, also (judging by the smaller bladders), 

 from Hants, Suffolk, Norfolk ; all of them formerly labelled as 

 vulc/aris" {-p. 549). Supposing the highly probable supposition that 

 the six counties thus enumerated by Mr. Watson all produce U. 

 negleda (and liis marks of distinction are so apt that from him, short 

 iis they are, this is not venturesome), we have eight counties in 

 southern England from which it stands recorded up to 1870. To 

 these may now bo added Cornwall and Kent. The former I obtain 

 from !Mr. Darwin's " Insectivorous Plants,''* and I believe, too, that 

 Mr. ]31ow showed me a Record Club specimen from that county which 

 was this species : the latter (Kent) is based upon what I stated at the 

 commencement of these remarks. I have further seen a poorish 

 specimen from as far north as Lancashire that I incline to put here 

 rather than to vuUiaris ; and it may be worth while to note that there is 

 a fine specimen from a third Essex locality in the British Museum Her- 

 barium, from the old collection of (Sir) John Hill. This gives definite 

 records for three of Mr. Gibson's botanical divisions of that county. 



Some young botanists may wish to inquire whether the two allied 

 species are difficult to distinguish, and I would say, in anticipation, 

 certainly not. I do not see how they can be confounded in fair-grown 

 living plants, nor yet in decently dried specimens. As usual the 

 description and contrasting points, as stated by Mr. Syme (now Dr. 

 Boswell), picture the plant to life, and the shorter description in Dr. 

 Hooker's " Student's Flora " is admirable. Prof. Babington's descrip- 

 tion is wanting in vitality, and I did not readily catch the meaning of 

 " 1. more distant, bladders on both stem and leaves" — which I 

 now find is a quotation from Lehmann's original description. 

 The new E. B. plate will help to confuse, whilst the trans- 

 ferred old one of U. vulgaris I call good. To my notion the 

 figure in "Flora Danica," 12, 1981, is better than that in Reichen- 

 bach's " Icones," unless, indeed, it should ultimately prove that two 

 sub-species exist on the Continent to which the name TJ. negleda is 

 applied, and for this being the case there is some evidence in the herba- 

 rium (now incorporated atKew) of M. Gay, who wentso far as toseparate 

 a distinct-looking plant under the MS. name U. gaUoprovincialis, with 

 the remark that it was perhaps new, or at least new to Europe. To 

 those who have the opportunity it will be advantageous to compare 

 the *' Fl. Danica" representation with that of U. vulgaris in the same 

 work(l, 138). 



The prominent marks of distinction in well-grown plants at a 

 corresponding stage of development and approaching maturity are : — 



U. negleda. Pedicels slender, four to six times as long as the calyx, 

 straight and ascenditig after flowering ; bracts lanceolate, upper corolla- 

 lip projecting considerably beyond the small palate, which occupies 

 only about one-fifth of the superficies of the lower lip, the remaining 

 portion or flange of Avhich spreads horizontally ; bladders about one- 

 tenth of an inch in length. 



• " The plants which I first received as Vtiinilaria vulgaris irora the New 

 Forest in Hainpshire and from Cornwall, and which I have chiefly worked on, 

 have heen determined by Dr. Hooker to be a very rare British species, the 

 Vtricularia negleda of I.ehm." The New Forest specimens were sent by Rev. 

 H. M. Wilkinson, of Bistern ; the Cornish, from near Penzance, by Mr. Ralfs 

 (p. 39.5). 



