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3. Utricularia resupinata B. D. Greene. 

 Reversed Bladdenvort. (Fig. 3344.) 



Utricularia resupinata B. D. Greene; Bigel. Fl. Bost. Ed. 3, 

 10. 1840. 



Scape filiform, 2 / -j / high, 2-bracted near the flower, 

 arising from creeping rooting shoots which rise i / -2 / 

 above the ground and bear a few branches and bladders. 

 Flower solitary, purple, resting transversely upon the 

 summit of the scape and so appearing resupinate; cor- 

 olla 3 // ~5 // long, the limb deeply 2-parted, remote from 

 the conic spur. 



In sandy bogs and borders of ponds, Maine to Florida, 

 west to Michigan. Rare and local. July-Aug. 



4. Utricularia subulata L. Tiny or Zig-zag 

 Bladderwort. (Fig. 3345.) 



Utricularia subulata L,. Sp. PI. 18. 1753. 

 Utricularia setacea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 12. 1803. 



Scape filiform, i / -8 / high, the racemes zig-zag. Leaves 



few, entire, they and the bladders seldom found; pedicels 



2 // -6 // long, slender; flowers 1-10, yellow; corolla 2 // -3 // 



broad, the lower lip 3-lobed, the upper smaller, ovate; 



spur conic, appressed to the lower lip and equalling it in 



length, or shorter. 



In wet, sandy soil, Nantucket to Florida, west to Texas, 

 Mexico and Arkansas. Also in Cuba. March-Aug. 



5. Utricularia cleistogama (A. Gray) Brittou. 

 Closed Bladderwort. (Fig. 3346.) 



T'lricularia subulata var. cleistogama A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: 



Part 1, 317. 1878. 

 U. clandestina Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 9: 12. 1889. 



Scape hair-like, i / ~3 / high, 1-2-flowered. Stems root- 

 like, sparse, sending a few minute simple shoots above 

 ground; bladders minute, seldom seen; flowers on short 

 bracted pedicels; corolla }4 // -i ,/ broad, strictly cleistoga- 

 mous, spurless, the lips nearly equal, the lower varying 

 from purplish to yellow, the upper white; seeds dark ru- 

 gosely pitted, scarcely X" in diameter; capsule globose. 



In wet soil, eastern Massachusetts and in the pine-barrens 

 of New Jersey. August. 



6. Utricularia inflata Walt. Swollen Bladder- 

 wort. (Fig. 3347.) 



Utricularia inflata Walt. Fl. Car. 64. 1788. 



Utricularia ceratophylla Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 12. 1803. 



Scapes stout, 3 / -2o / high, bearing a whorl of 5-9 

 leaves at about the middle. Branches long, floating, 

 crowded with dichotomously divided leaves and cov- 

 ered with bladders; leaves of the scape finely dissected, 

 their petioles cylindric, inflated, dilated upward, %'- 

 2' long; flowers 2-10, yellow, about o/' broad; upper 

 lip of the corolla broadly ovate, obscurely lobed or 

 crenate, the lower 3-lobed; spur conic, emarginate, ap- 

 pressed to the lower lip and about one-half its length ; 

 capsule nodding in fruit. 



In ponds, Canada (according to Pursh); Maine to Florida 

 and Texas, near the coast. March-Aug. 



