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spur especially small, according to D. 453. Much rarer, 

 as well as smaller, than the other varieties in Southern 

 Europe. "In Britain, known only upon the moors of 

 Rosehaugh, Ross-shire, where the progress of cultivation 

 seems likely soon to efface it." (Grindon.) 



4. Pingnicula Pallida : Pale Butterwort. From Sow- 

 erhy's drawing, (135, vol. iii.,) it would appear to be the 

 most delicate and lovely of all the group. The leaves, 

 " like those of other species, but rather more delicate 

 and pellucid, reticulated with red veins, and much in- 

 volute in the margin. Tube of the corolla, yellow, 

 streaked with red, (the streaks like those of a pansy) ; 

 the petals, pale violet. It much resembles Yillosa, (our 

 Minima, ~No. 5,) in many particulars, the stem being 

 hairy, and in the lower part the hairs tipped with a 

 viscid fluid, like a sundew. But the Yillosa has a 

 slender sharp spur; and in this the spur is blunt and 

 thick at the end." (Since the hairy stem is not peculiar 

 to Villosa, I take for her, instead, the epithet Minima, 

 which is really definitive.) 



The pale one is commonly called ' Lusitanica,' but I 

 find no direct notice of its Portuguese habitation. Sow- 

 erlrrs plant came from Blandford, Dorsetshire ; and 

 Grindon says it is frequent in Ireland, abundant in Ar- 

 ran. and extends on the western side of the British island 

 from Cornwall to Cape Wrath. My epithet, Pallida, is 

 secure, and simple, wherever the plant is found. 



