50 PROSERPINA. 



The families to be remembered will be only five, 

 namely, 



1. Pinguicula Major, the largest of the group. As 

 bog plants, Ireland may rightly claim the noblest of 

 them, which certainly grow there luxuriantly, and not (I 

 believe) with us. Their colour is, however, more broken 

 and less characteristic than that of the following 

 species. 



2. Pinguicula Yiolacea: Violet- coloured Butterwort, 

 (instead of ' vulgaris,') the common English and Swiss 

 kind above noticed. 



3. Pinguicula Alpina : Alpine Butterwort, white and 

 much smaller than either of the first two families ; the 



in the name of the order lentibularew ; but it probably comes from 

 lenticula, which signifies the little root bladders, somewhat resem- 

 bling lentils. 



(3) ' Manual of Scientific Terms/ Stormonth, p. 234. 

 Lenlibulariacece, neuter, plural. 



(Lenticula, the shape of a lentil; from lens, a lentil.) The But- 

 terwort family, an order of plants so named from the lenticu- 

 lar shape of the air-bladders on the branches of utricularia, 

 one of the genera. (But observe that the Butterworts have 

 nothing of the sort, any of them. R.) 

 Loudon. " Floaters." 



Lindley. " Sometimes with whoiied vesicles." 

 In Nuttall's Standard (?) Pronouncing Dictionary, it is given, 

 Lenticular ece, a nat. ord. of marsh plants, which thrive in water 

 or marshes. 



