ON UTRICULAEIA NEGLECTA. 145 



TJ. vulgaris. Pedicels thick, two to three times as long as the 

 calyx, recurved and reflexed after flowering ; bracts ovate, palate large 

 and prominent, projecting out about as far as the length of 

 the upper corolla-lip and occupying a full third of the superficies of 

 the lower lip, whilst the free portion does not spread, but is reflexed 

 all round ; bladders twice the size (about one-fifth inch) of the above. 



In general terms TJ. vulgaris is a thicker and coarser plant than 

 V. neglecta, and, in the fresh specimens I have seen, had approximately 

 orange-yellow versus lemon-yellow flowers. Whilst to the former 

 plant we might apply such words as clumsy and peculiar-looking, we 

 should, in contrast, say of the latter graceful and handsome. If we 

 search for other marks of diff'erence than those already mentioned, they 

 offer in plenty — e.g., the angle at which the leaf-pinnae are arranged 

 upon their common stalks, the different appearances of the hyber- 

 nacula, &c. — and if we work at microscopic distinctions, such may 

 be detected in the number of the bristles that are inoculated in the 

 notches along the edge of the leaf-segments (three or four in a bunch 

 in vulgaris against a single one in neglecta — Darwin) ; also in the 

 number of the multicellular bristles that proceed from the margin 

 of the bladder above the valvular aperture, and in the number borne 

 by the two long prolongations which Mr. Darwin, carrying on his 

 similitude of the bladder to an entomostracan crustacean, calls, for the 

 sake of convenience, the antenncB. Whether there is any constant 

 interval between the periods of flowering of the two species I am not 

 prepared to say ; my Kent plant was in good and progressing flower- 

 ing state on ISth Sept., and JJ. vulgaris I have seen in like condition 

 in Cheshire on 8th July. Perhaps there is a second crop of flowers. 



Although I have little doubt that TJ. neglecta has sometimes been 

 called TJ. intermedia,'^' there is, as far as we are concerned, an un- 

 bridgeable gulf between the two. If TJ. intermedia is kept to what 

 Hayne had in view in founding the species, it is as distinct a plant as 

 well can be, and holds an established position through North Europe, 

 North America, and North Asia. I suppose it is the invitingly con- 

 venient name that has fathered to it such a miscellaneous assemblage 

 of ill-conditioned, unnameable odds and ends of Utricularia as we 

 sometimes see so called, and which would appear to have created with 

 some a suspicion as to the integrity of the species. It, in contra- 

 distinction to TJ. neglecta, has evidently an attachment to the same 

 kind of locality and surroundings as TJ. minor. Notwithstanding its 

 wide distribution with us, the plant in flower is one of the rarest in 

 the British catalogue. The only fine specimens that I have seen in 

 this state are some collected by Mr. Borrer in August, 1840, from 

 '* boggy pools and streams on Scotland Heath, Corfe Castle," a station 

 mentioned by Mr. Mansel-Pleydell in his "Flora of Dorset." They 

 are exactly like Hayne' s figure. 



Where TJ. intermedia has been recorded from an unlikely habitat 



• In the Borrer collection at Kew is a specimen which probably comes 

 xm^QT neglecta, received from Eev. J. Dalton, with the ticket inscribed, " U. 

 intermedia. Is it right ? All I have. Sent by old Parson Holme from Cam- 

 bridgeshire." Mr. Borrer adds his reply to the query, " I think not." 



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