S DIANDRI A MONOG Y NIA. 



pale blue, streaked; seeds cupped, wrinkled. Ivy-leaved Speed'- 

 well. 



Hob. Cultivated fields, very common. May. 



The " Mother-of-Wheat " of our husbandmen, a name ex- 

 pressive of a prevalent opinion that this weed will grow 

 freely only on soils well fitted for the cultivation of that 

 grain. 



9. PINGUICULA. 



1. P. vulgaris, nectary cylindrical, acute, as long as the very 

 irregular petal ; segments of the calyx oblong ; capsule ovate. 

 (Leaves ovate, with involute margins ; flowers drooping, purple, 

 palate hairy.) Butterwort. 



Hob. Marshy places, particularly on moors, common. 

 June. If. 



" The husbandmen's wives of Yorkshire," saith GERARDE, 

 " do vse to anoint the dugs of their kine with the fat and 

 oilous iuyce of the herbe Butterwort, when they are bit- 

 ten with any venomous worme, or chapped, rifted, and 

 hurt by any other meanes." The Laplanders use the 

 leaves to make their TcBtmioelk^ a preparation of milk in 

 common use amongst them. Some fresh leaves are laid 

 upon a filter, and milk, yet warm from the rein-deer, is 

 poured over them. After passing quickly through the 

 filter, this is allowed to rest for one or two days, until it. 

 becomes ascescent, when it is found not to have separated 

 from the whey, and yet to have attained much greater 

 tenacity and consistence than otherwise it would have 

 done. 



10. UTRICULARIA. 



1. U. vulgaris, spur conical, upper lip of the corolla the length 

 of the palate, reflexed at the sides ; flowers somewhat corymbose, 

 G or 8, large, yellow. Greater Bladderwort. 



Hob. Ditches ; in the pond-field above Spindlestone. June. 

 July. 7/ 



A very curious and interesting plant. The stems, about a 

 foot long, lie prostrate in the water, and are beset, at re- 

 gular intervals, with divided capillary leaves of a vascular 

 structure, and armed with distant minute spines. At- 

 tached to the leaves are numerous crested vesicles of a 

 green purple or pink colour, with an aperture closed by a 

 valve, and having its margin armed with a few long spines. 

 These vesicles are filled with water till it is necessary the 



