92 FINGUICULA LUTEA. YELLOW LUTTERWORT. 



gent, of Cambridge, Mass., we are indebted for the specimen 

 from which our drawing was made, reports that it is one of the 

 most beautiful of the early floral attractions of that State. Other 

 observers from further northward report that it often grows in 

 immense patches in rather sandy places, especially in the Pine 

 barrens, where, in March, it forms brilliant golden sheets of 

 bloom. Its favorite situation seems to be in locations rather 

 damp than dry. 



To botanists it is an old acquaintance, having been noted by 

 Walter, who published a " Flora of Carolina," in 1788. Lamarck, 

 in 1792, named it Piiiguimla canipaiuilata, but the prior name of 

 Walter's, under botanical rules, is the accepted one. Beyond 

 this it has no synonyms of importance, though Professor Gray 

 notes that it probably has some varieties. 



The natural order to which it belongs, Lentibulai'iacecE, is a 

 very small one, containing scarcely half a dozen genera, of which 

 Utricidaria and our present genus constitute the most important 

 representatives. The name LcntibidariacecE is derived from 

 what was once the genus Lentibidaria, but which has since 

 been absorbed by Utricidaria, the well-known and curious 

 " Bladderwort." 



Our artist has presented the flowers in so many aspects that a 

 detailed explanation is scarcely necessary. Fig. 2 shows the 

 two-lipped character of the calyx when divested of the corolla, 

 but this also appears from the back view of one of the expanded 

 flowers. 



