8 CLASS II. ORDER I. 



inserted in the sides of the corolla, the two sterile ones minute. 

 Style long, persistent. — Borders ol' ponds and muddy places. — 

 September. 



10. LINDERNIA. 

 LiNDERNiA PYXiDARiA. PursJi. Common Lindernia. 



Smooth ; leaves oblong ovate, obsoletely toothed, 

 sessile ; peduncles axillary, one flowered ; corolla 

 twice as long as the calyx ; capsule shorter than the 

 calyx. 



Syn. Gratiola anagallidea. Mx. 

 Lindernia dilatata. Mulil. 



Stem square, smooth. Leaves opposite, closely sessile, ovate, 

 hardly toothed. Peduncles axillary. Calyx leaves five, linear, 

 acute. Corolla pale blue, the upper lip very short, the lower of 

 three deflexed roundish lobes. Capsule oblong, acute. 



It is a small annual plant, variable in habit, found in damp 

 rich soils, flowering in the latter part of summer. 



11. UTRICULARIA. 

 Utricularia vui-garis. L. Bladder wort. 



Floating ; nectary conical ; scape with few flowers. 



An aquatic plant, appearing above water only with its stalk 

 and flowers. The roots are slightly fixed to the mud at bottom, 

 the rest of the plant floats in the water by means of numerous 

 small air bladders attached to its immersed portions. Stem and 

 peduncles round, shining. Bractes ovate, scarious. Calyx of 

 two ovate concave leafets, the lower one widest and sometimes 

 bifid. Corolla yellow, personate, the upper lip irregularly ovate, 

 the lower with a projecting palate veined with brown. Spur 

 of the nectary striated with parallel angular lines, curved up- 

 ward, as long as the lower lip. acute, sometimes emarginate. 

 Stamens two attached to the upper lip near its insertion, short, 

 incurved. Germ globular, style clavate, stigma concave, mem- 

 branous, incurved against an opposite tooth. 



This is exactly the U. vulgaris of Europe by Sowerby's figure. 

 The horn is sometimes acute and emarginate in the same plant, 



