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warm milk, and make it like the first." * (Baxter, vol, 

 iii., Xo. 209.) 



14. In the same page, I find quoted Dr. Johnston's 

 observation that "when specimens of this plant were 

 somewhat rudely pulled up, the flower-stalk, previously 

 erect, almost immediately began to bend itself backwards, 

 and formed a more or less perfect segment of a circle; 

 and so also, if a specimen is placed in the Botanic box, 

 you will in a short time find that the leaves have curled 

 themselves backwards, and now conceal the root by their 

 revolution." 



I have no doubt that this elastic and wiry action is 

 partly connected with the plant's more or less predatory 

 or fly-trap character, in which these curiously degraded 

 plants are associated with Drosera. I separate them 

 therefore entirely from the Bladderworts, and hold them 

 to be a link between the Violets and the Droseracese, 



* Withering quotes this as from Linnaeus, and adds on authority 

 of a Mr. Hawkes, " This did not succeed when tried with cows' milk." 

 He also gives as another name, Yorkshire Sanicle ; and says it is 

 called earning grass in Scotland. Linnasus says the juice will curdle 

 reindeer's milk. The name for rennet is earning, in Lincolnshire. 

 Withering also gives this note : " Pinguis, fat, from its effect in CON- 

 GEALING milk." (A.) Withering of course wrong : the name comes, 

 be the reader finally assured, from the fatness of the green leaf, quite 

 peculiar among wild plants, and fastened down for us in the French 

 word ' Grassette.' I have found the flowers also difficult to dry, in the 

 benighted early times when I used to think a dried plant useful ! See 

 closing paragraphs of the 4th chapter. R. 



