CHAPTEE II. 



PINGUICULA. 



(Written in early June, 1881.) 



1. ON the rocks of my little stream, where it runs, or 

 leaps, through the moorland, the common Pinguicula is 

 now in its perfectest beauty ; and it is one of the off- 

 shoots of the violet tribe which I have to place in the 

 minor collateral groups of Yiola very soon, and must not 

 put off looking at it till next year. 



There are three varieties given in Sowerby : 1. Yul- 

 garis, 2. Greater-flowered, and 3. Lusitanica, white, for 

 the most part, pink, or ' carnea,' sometimes : but the 

 proper colour of the family is violet, and the perfect 

 form of the plant is the 'vulgar' one. The larger- 

 flowered variety is feebler in colour, and ruder in form : 

 the white Spanish one, however, is very lovely, as far as 

 I can judge from Sowerby's (old Sowerby's) pretty draw- 

 ing. 



The ' frequent' one (I shall usually thus translate ' vul- 

 ^aris '), is not by any means so ' frequent ' as the Queen 

 violet, being a true wild-country, and mostly Alpine, 

 plant ; and there is also a real ' Pinguicula Alpina,' 



