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To the same Nat. Ord., LENTIBULARIACEA, 
belongs the genus Prxguzcula, Butterwort, a 
small very pale green plant with greasy-looking 
leaves spreading close to the ground, and 
flower stalks 2 to 6 inches long, bearing a 
pretty violet-coloured flower with two stamens. 
When the plant is drawn out by its root from 
its moist soft bed, the leaves curve back and 
cover the root. The corolla, like that of 
Utricularia, is 2-lipped and spurred, but that of 
Pinguicula is of the kind called a rengent 
corolla, the two lips being widely open ; where- 
as the two lips of Utricularia are so disposed 
as to close the opening, and this is called a 
personate corolla, being like the muzzle of a 
quadruped. 
Few plants are prettier than the Race 
starring the carpets of wet moss where they 
grow, and displaying their purple-blue flowers 
on slender stems. The natives of Scandinavia 
use this plant to hasten the coagulation of their 
milk, which they like thickened. 
We have three species of Dvosera, Sundew, 
the only genus of the Nat. Ord. DRosERACE&, 
extremely pretty plants. The writer has in his 
possession some interesting Australian speci- 
