262 Lentibulariaceae 



LENTIBULARIACE^ 

 Butter-wort Family 



In our species, stemless herbs with fibrous 

 roots and i-flowered scapes; basal, tufted, 

 entire leaves, the upper surface covered with a 

 viscid secretion, to which insects adhere and 

 are caught by the curling of the sensitive 

 leaf margins; calyx 4~5-parted or 2-lipped; 

 corolla sac-like and contracted into a spur. 



Leaves pale yellowish -green, 



3-7 in a rosette at the base of 

 vulgaris L. 



Butterwort. the SCa P e > g reas Y to the touch 



on the upper surface, ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, 1-2 inches long, J as 

 wide. Flowers solitary on a slender scape, 

 violet-purple, nearly J an inch broad when 

 expanded, 2-lipped; the upper lip 2-lobed; 

 the lower 3-lobed, larger; the tube gradually 

 contracted into an obtuse or acute nearly 

 straight spur, J of an inch long. 



In wet mossy places, on rocks, or edges 

 of gravelly stream beds throughout the 



