316 73. Lathr^ea. 23. OROBANCHEiE. PL ex, cor. 



Lathrcea simplex. Branchless ioothwort. 



Stem not branched ; flowers peduncled. 



Anblatum Cordi sive aphyllon, Rail Syn. 288 *. 

 Dentaria major Matthioli, Ger. em. 1385, 1. 

 Squaraaria, Rivini Monop. iri\ 89, 5. 

 Lathraea Squamaria, Lin. S. P. 844. 

 Clown's lungwort. 



Dry woods, on hazel and elm ; perennial ; April. 



Root white; scales heartshape; stem upright, 9 in. high, 

 downy ; hracteoe ovate, bald ; calyx white ; limh of the co- 

 rolla purple; tube white. — Used as a pectoral by country 

 people. 



Fam. VII. 24. LENTIBULARI.£. Richard. Utrku- 

 larice, HofFmansegg and Link. Lysi- 

 machiis offines^ Jussieu. Personata- 

 rum sectio, De Candolle. 

 Calyx divided, persisting; corolla monopetalous, hypo- 

 gynous, irregular, spurred, 2-lipped; stamens 2, enclosed 

 at the tooth of the corolla ; antJier simple or contracted in 

 the middle; ovary 1-celled; style 1, very short; stigma two- 

 lipped; seeds small ; perisperni». fleshy; cotyledons sometimes 

 only 1 ? — -Herb aquatic or marsh ; leaves radical, undivided, 

 fleshy, or compound rootshape and bladdery; scape naked, 

 or covered with minute scalelike or bladderlike stipules, 

 often undivided, 1 or many-flowered ; bractea 1 to each 

 flower, or none. 



Calyx 2-parted ; lower Up not cut . ,. Utricularia. 74. 

 Calyx 5-cut, bellshape ; lower Up 2-lobed 



PlNGUICULA. 75. 



I. ' 74. UTRICULARIA. Linnaeus. Bladder-snout. 



Calyx 2-leaved ; lips equal, undivided ; corolla personate, 

 upper lip sometimes nicked ; lower lip large, not nicked, 

 spurred at the base ; stamens 2 ; stigma 2-lipped. — Plant 

 herbaceous, aquatic, free; leaves rootshape, underwater, 

 many-cut, with many bladders full of air wliile flowering, 

 and of water before and after ; scape leafless ; flowers spiked 

 or solitary, yellow. 



1. Utricularia vulgaris. Common lladdersnout. 



Stem conical ; scape few-flowered ; upper lip of the co- ' 

 rolla as long as the palate, not nicked ; leaves pinnatifidly 

 many-cut ; lobes hairlike. 

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