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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Pine Weevils continued. 



to September. As beetles, they destroy the young 

 branches of Conifers by boring small holes in them, and 

 sucking the sap (see Fig. 157). Resin is apt to flow 

 out from the openings, and the branches die, and fall 

 off. 



Prevention. This is best insured by the removal and 

 burning of the branches, &c., cut off in wood-cutting 

 operations. The supply of food for the larvae is thus 

 stopped. The perfect insects may be caught by using, 

 as traps, flat pieces of bark, laid on the ground under 

 weights, and frequently examining them; from these the 



FIG. 157. PISSODES NOTATUS, showing Insect (natural size) and 

 Ravages to Trunk committed by it. The bark has been 

 removed from the middle of the trunk, to show the galleries. 



beetles can be picked off. Or cut branches may be placed 

 in suitable localities, and the beetles attracted to them 

 may be shaken off and killed. A few logs should be 

 left for a time, to induce the females to lay their eggs 

 thereon; but they should be burned while the larvse 

 are still in them. Young Conifers should not be planted 

 on the site of an old plantation, where numerous stumps 

 serve as breeding-places for the beetles. Hand-picking 

 is of use where the trees to be protected are few and 

 small. 



FINGUICULA (a diminutive from pinguis, fat ; re- 

 ferring to the greasy texture of the plants). Butter- 

 wort. OKD. Lentibulariece. A genus of greenhouse or 

 hardy, terrestrial herbs, broadly dispersed (in boggy 

 places) over tlic extra-tropical regions of the Northern 



Fingnicula, continued. 



hemisphere, a few being found in the Andes of America, 

 extending as far as the Antarctic regions. Upwards 

 of thirty species have been described, but probably not 

 more than twenty are really distinct. Flowers terminal ; 

 calyx four or five-parted or bilabiate ; corolla purple, 

 violet, or yellow, bilabiate, the lobes all spreading, entire 

 or emarginate; scape erect, one-flowered, leafless, ebrac- 

 teate. Leaves radical, rosulate, entire, often greasy to 

 the touch. The hardy species thrive in a marshy, boggy 

 soil, and are propagated by seeds, by leaf cuttings, or 

 by division. The greenhouse species thrive in well- 

 drained pots of peat and sphagnum or in fibrous peat 

 and pieces of broken pots, and may be increased by 

 the same means. The under-mentioned species are the 

 best for gardening purposes. They are all perennials. 



P. alpina (alpine). /., corolla white; lips unequal; throat 

 yellow, hairy; spur very short, conical. May and June. I. 

 elliptic, slightly pilose above. A. Sin. Arctic Europe (Scot- 

 land), &c. (Sy. En. B. 1123.) 



P. Bakeriana (Baker's). A synonym of P. caudata. 



P. caudata (tailed).* ft, of a beautiful, rich, deep carmine, on 

 long scapes, terminal. Autumn. I., when young, in dense 

 rosettes, fleshy, long, narrow, with slightly incurved tips ; in 

 older plants few, large, obovate, obtuse, with a thick, obscure 

 midrib, dull pale green, with dirty-purplish margins. Mexico, 

 1881. A lovely greenhouse plant. (B. M. 6624 : Gn., August, 

 1881.) SYNS. P. Bakeriana (G. C. n. s., xv. 541), P.flos-mulionit 

 (B. H. 1872, 371). 



P. flos-mulionls (muleteer's-flower). A synonym of P. caudata. 



P. grandiflora (large-flowered).* JL violet-blue, on radical 

 scapes ; corolla lin. or more long, and nearly as much in width, 

 with a broad, open mouth. Summer. 1. in rosettes, light green, 

 fleshy, oval or oblong, obtuse. South-west Ireland. A nand- 

 some bog plant. (G. C. n. s., iv. 27 ; Sy. En. B. 1122.) 



P. hlrtlflora (hairy-flowered). This much resembles P. vulgaris, 

 but the flowers are paler, with a yellowish throat, sparsely 

 glandular or glabrous, the peduncles and calyx are hairy, and 

 the slender spur is straight or incurved. Mountains of Italy and 

 Greece, 1885. Hardy. (B. M. 



FIG. 158. PlNGUICULA VULGAIUS. 



P. Insitanlca (Portuguese). JL, corolla lilac, with a yellow 

 throat, 4in. long ; lips nearly equal, the lower pouched from 

 without; scapes very slender. June to October. I. ^in. to in. 

 long, oblong, shortly petiolate, thin, succulent, obtuse, with in- 

 curved margins, h. 6in. Europe (Britain). (Sy. En. B. 1124.) 



P. lutea (yellow). /., corolla yellow and golden, nearly lin. long, 

 campanulate, somewhat five-fid, the lobes scarcely distinct, 

 sinuated or cut. June. I. obovate-elliptic, somewhat glabrous, 

 lin. long, slightly obtuse, h. Sin. North America, 1815. Half- 

 hardy. (B. B. 126.) The form edentula has all the corolla lobes 

 obcordate, and not laciniated. (H. E. F. 16, under name of 

 P. edentula.) 



