190 WILD FLOWERS. 



BUTTER-WORT. 



Pinguwula. 



Welsh, Toddaidd melyn. French, Grassette. German, Fett- 

 kraut. Dutch, Smeerblade. Italian, Pinguicola. Spa- 

 nish, Grassila. Portuguese, Grassetta. Danish, Vibefit. 

 Swedish, Tetort. 



LINN.EAN. NATURAL. 



Diandria. Lentibularicee. 



IN stagnant marshes, as I have before remarked,* 

 the pinguicula rears its fragile and beautiful blos- 

 soms. In the winter the leaves die away, and only 

 little hybernating buds appear, but with the earliest 

 spring these unfold amongst the dark jungerman- 

 nice and lichens with which they grow, and the 

 smooth shining leaves, of the brightest yet most 

 delicate yellow green, make their appearance, spark- 

 ling with the minutest dew-drops resting upon the 

 point of the delicate hair-like gland, or pore, from 

 which each drop exudes ; and which, but for the 

 presence of these, would be scarcely visible. I am 

 not aware that amongst the numerous experiments 

 which have been tried in order to ascertain the 

 amount of exhalation in different plants, any have 

 been made with the pinguicula ; but it is certainly 



* See above, " Sundew." 



