Pinellia 



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Pinguicula 



PINELLIA. 



An unimportant genus (prd. Aroidese). The 

 plants are of no garden value, and are only to be 

 found in botanic establishments. 



PINGUICULA. 



Greenhouse and hardy perennial herbs (ord, 

 Lentibulariea;), found in boggy places, and needing, 



should be placed in a close but not warm frame. 

 Divisions will start away more freely if they also 

 are kept close for a fortnight. The hardy species 

 do well if they can be given a sheltered, boggy 

 nook in the lower levels of the rockery Pot plants 

 should be grown in peat and sphagnum, with a few 

 crocks intermixed. The drainage must be free and 

 the water supply liberal all through the year. 



riioto: Cassell <t- Company, Ltd, 



TlNUS EXCELSA (see p. 200). 



under cultivation, an approach to these conditions. 

 The leaves are mostly fleshy, and covered in many 

 cases with glandular hairs, which excrete a glutinous 

 fluid, employed by the plants as a trap for insects, 

 from which they are able to obtain part of their 

 food. Propagation is by seeds, leaf cuttings, and 

 division. Leaf cuttings of the hardy species 



Principal Species : 



alpinn, 3", My., Je., 

 hdy., wh., lip yel. 



oainl.-ita, 6", aut., grh. , 

 rich car. , Ivs. in rosettes, 

 very fleshy; the hand- 

 somest of all (f>/n*. 



bakeriana and Flos- 

 mulionis). 



gramliflora, sum., hdy., 

 bl., vio., 1" across, a 

 pretty bog plant. 



