20 UTRICULARIA. [class n. order i. 



Habitat. — Bogs in Scotland, very rare; Isle of Skye — Mr. James 

 M'Kay ; hogs of AugLterflow and Shannon, Ross-shire. 



Perennial ; flowering in June. 



This is a very pretty little delicate plant, and a very interesting addi- 

 tion to our list of British plants ; it appears to have heen overlooked by 

 Sir J. E. Smith, as P. Lusilanica. 



4. P. Lttsitan'ica, (Fig. 30.) pale Bntterwort. Spur cylindrical, ob- 

 tuse, shorter than the nearly regular limb of the corolla, scape 

 hairy, as well as the leaves, which are thin and veiny, capsule 

 globose. 



English Botany, t. 145. — English Flora, vol. i. p. 28. — Lindley, Sy- 

 nopsis, p. 186. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 10. 



Leaves radical, ovate, obtuse, pale green, semi-transparent, and in- 

 tersected with numerous purple or reddish veins. Scape from three to 

 six inches high, more or less clothed with hairs, which are tipped with 

 small glands. Corolla pale purple, the throat yellow, beautifully 

 streaked with red. Spur light yellow. 



Habitat. — In wet moors and boggy situations; Dorsetshire, Hamp- 

 shire, Devonshire, and Cornwall. "Plentiful in the Hebrides and 

 Ireland ; but most abundant in the extreme north of Scotland, near 

 Cape Wrath, growing among Jungermannia cochleariformis and Ar- 

 butus alpina''' — (Hooker). ^Ve have collected it abundantly on the 

 Isle of Arran. 



Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



GENUS IV. UTRICULARIA. Bladderu-ort. 



Nat. Ord. Lentibila'ri.«. 



Gen. Char. Calj/.v permanent, of two ovate equal leaves. Corolla 

 personate, spurred. Germen globose. Stj/le short. Stigma two- 

 lipped. Capsule one-celled. Seeds numerous, small, attached to 

 a central globose receptacle. Name from Utriculm, a little blad- 

 der or bottle. 



1. U. inilqa'ris, (Fig. 31.) greater filadderirort, or Greater-hooded 

 Milfoil. Spur of the corolla conical, upper lip entire, the length 

 of the palate, leaves capillary, repeatedly and unc(iua]]y divided, 

 bristly at the margin. 

 English Botany, t. 2o3. — Englisli Flora, vol. i. p. 30. — Liudloy, Sy- 

 nopsis, p. 18(5. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 10. 



Roof long and fibrous, much branclicd. Seape erect, from four to 

 twelve inches long, with lanceolate membranous bractea at unequal 

 distances, which, us well as the cali/.v and upper part of the scape, are 

 of a purplish colour, and bearing numerous large bright ycllow^oHrr.v 



