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tribo the Pinguicula is said by them all (except Figuier) to 

 belong. It may perhaps be in Sowerby ; * but these above- 

 named treatises are precisely of the kind with which the or- 

 dinary scholar must be content : and in all of them he has to 

 learn this long, worse than useless, word, under which he is 

 betrayed into classing together two orders naturally quite 

 distinct, the Butterworts and the Bladderworts. 



Whatever the name may mean it is bad Latin. There is 

 such a word as Lenticularis there is no Lentibularis ; and 

 it must positively trouble us no longer, f 



The Butterworts are a perfectly distinct group whether 

 small or large, always recognizable at a glance. Their proper 

 Latin name will be Pinguicula, (plural Pinguiculse,) their 



* It is not. (Resolute negative from A. , unsparing of time for me ; 

 and what a state of things it all signifies !) 



f With the following three notes, ' A ' must become a definitely and 

 gratefully interpreted letter. I am indebted for the first, conclusive in 

 itself, but variously supported and confirmed by the two following, to 

 R. J. Mann, Esq., M.D., long ago a pupil of Dr. Lindley's, and now 

 on the council of Whitelauds College, Chelsea : for the second, to 

 Mr. Thomas Moore, F.L.S , the kind Keeper of the Botanic Garden at 

 Chelsea ; for the third, which will be farther on useful to us, to Miss 

 Kemm, the botanical lecturer at Whitelands. 



(1) There is no explanation of Leiitibulariacese in Lindley's 'Vege- 

 table Kingdom.' He was not great in that line. The term is, however, 

 taken from Lenticula, the lentil, in allusion to the lentil-shaped air- 

 bladders of the typical genus Utricularia. 



The change of the c into b may possibly have been made only from 

 some euphonic fancy of the contriver of the name, who, I think, was 

 Rich. 



But I somewhat incline myself to think that the tibia, a pipe or flute 

 may have had something to do with it. The tibia may possibly ha 

 been diminished into a little pipe by a stretch of licence, and have 

 become tibula : [but tibulus is a kind of pine tree in Pliny] ; when Leu- 

 tibula would be the lens or lentil-shaped pipe or bladder. I give yo 

 this only for what it is worth. The lenticula, as a derivation, is reliable 

 and has authority. 



Lenticula, a lentil, a freckly eruption ; lenticularis, lentil -shaped; 

 so the nat. ord. ought to be (if this be right) lenticulariacecB. 



(2) BOTANIC GAIIDENS, CHELSEA, Feb. 14, 1882. 

 Lentibularia is an old generic name of Tournefort's, which has been 



superseded by utriculana, but, oddly enough, has been retained in th 



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