580 BARNHART: A NEW UTRICULARIA 
strictly erect scapes, “‘ rooting’”’ in mud (there are no true roots 
in Utricularia, these root-like organs being actually caulome) ; 
stems radiating from the bases of the scapes, extremely slender 
and delicate, so that they usually break off short and are very 
rarely collected ; some of the leaves filiform, root-like, and bladder- 
bearing, others linear and resembling minute blades of grass; 
flowers subspicate, the pedicels being shorter than the bracts ; 
bracts trifid; and palate of the corolla laterally compressed, not 
lobed. 
Utricularia virgatula sp. nov. 
Stems extremely delicate, radiating from the base of the scape, 
on or just beneath the surface of the soil: leaves scattered, un- 
divided, linear, 4-8 mm. long, some erect, green-tipped, and 
bladderless, others root-like, colorless, and bladder-bearing : 
scapes fixed in the mud, erect, wiry, brownish, 2-20 cm. long; 
scales several, minute, acute ; bracts minute, less than 1 mm. long, 
trifid, the middle lobe much broader than the lateral ones : flowers 
1-6, subsessile : calyx purplish, the upper lobe broadly ovate, 
acuminate, 4 mm. long, the lower ovate, acute, only half the width 
of the upper, 2.5 mm. long: corolla yellow ; upper lip spatulate, 
emarginate, barely if at all exceeding the upper calyx-lobe ; lower 
lip about the length of the upper, entire, apiculate, consisting 
almost wholly of the laterally compressed palate, with a minute 
tuft of hairs in the throat; spur pendent, conical, acute, 2-3 mm. 
long: capsule subspherical, I.5-2 mm. in diameter, purplish, 
closely invested by the persistent calyx-lobes, and slenderly beaked 
by the acuminate upper one; placenta spherical, stipitate, seed- 
bearing throughout : seeds very minute and numerous (about 750 
in each capsule), oval in outline, the surface prominently reticulate. 
New York: Near Riverhead, Suffolk County, September 
4-13, 1901, /. H. Barnhart (type, in the author’s herbarium) ; 
Woodmere, Nassau County, September 13, 1903, Z. P. Bicknell 
(in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden). 
The following material may also be referred here, with some 
doubt : 
New Jersey: Cold Spring, Cape May County, August 20, 
1891, Stewardson Brown (in the herbarium of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, sheet no. 502,805). 
Of our northeastern species, U. virgatula is most closely related 
fo U. juncea, its most striking differences being the small size of 
its scapes, and its miniature corollas, the largest barely exceeding 
