GAMOPETAL.^ 165 



heaths, on siliceous soils in siliceous grassland, on 

 upland moors in the cotton-grass association and 

 heather-moor association, in arctic-alpine vegetation, 

 and with hydrophilous chomophytes. 



The plant is smooth, except at the top of the scape 

 and the calyx, which is glandular. The plant has 

 the rosette habit. The leaves are radical, spreading, 

 ovate, oblong, lying on the ground, blunt, succulent. 

 The leafstalk is broad and short. The leaf-margins 

 are bent inwards. They are light-green with crys- 

 talline points, and are wet and clammy in appearance 

 therefrom. The leaves curl back when the plant is 

 uprooted. 



The scapes, which are several, are long. The 

 flowers are solitary, terminal, purplish-blue or violet. 

 The lobes of the calyx are ovate, oblong, blunt. The 

 corolla is gaping, with an awl-like, slender, straight 

 or curved spur, not so long as the unequal lobes. 

 The throat is bell-shaped, broad, lateral on the recep- 

 tacle, with the lower lip longer and broader than the 

 upper. The lobes are oblong, rounded, separate, and 

 entire. There are two anterior stamens, and two 

 lateral ones which are functionless. The capsule is 

 ovoid or nearly rounded^ acute, longer than the calyx. 

 There is only one cotyledon. 



In height the Butterwort varies from 2-6 in. It is 

 in flower from May to July, and is a herbaceous 

 perennial. 



The corolla is personate and spurred as in Toadflax. 

 The lips do not, however, close the flower. Honey 



