T.rXTinULARIACEiiE. ll'7 



yellow, strenkcd with a fVw scpaniti" jialo red liiios on the palate; under 

 lip nincli larger than the up|>er, with the niar^rins reflexed at i-i;.dit 

 nn,i,desall round. Capside i,dol>ular, cuspidate. i'lant usually redili^h- 

 olive; the young leaves witii tufts of very short hairs on the segments. 



Greater Bladderwort. 

 French, Utriculairc commune. Gernmn, Ofmn'ner Wa*i>erhfhn. 

 Tlic lonvcs of this plant are funiislicil with numerous mcmbmnacoons vesicles or 

 smiill bladders, which, during the early stape of the plant, are filled with water, but 

 when the flowers are ready to expand are tilled with air. After the season of blos- 

 soming, the vesicles become again filled with water, and the plant descends to ripen 

 its seeds at the bottom. There are many forcijjn species which are highly ornamental 

 in the places whore they grow, but they are seldom cultivated. 



SPECIES II.— UTRICULARIA NEGLECTA. Lchm. 

 Plate MCXXV. bi». 



Jieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCCXXIV. Figs. 1 to 3. 

 U. major, "Schmidel," lieich.JiL 1. c. p. 113. 



Loaves sproadiniz in all directions, oval in outline, two or three times 

 piiuiatilidly multitid, with the ultimate sofrments capillary, "not hristly 

 even when young " (lieich.), furnished with ovoid bladders. Pedicels 

 4 to 6 times as long as the calyx, straight and ascending after flowering. 

 Corolla wntli the upper lip twice or thrice as long as the projecting 

 bilobed palate; under lip ^\'ith a broad flat spreading margin, which 

 projects greatly beyond the palate; spur conical, acute, bent forwards 

 and downwards but not adpressed to the under lip of the corolla, of 

 which it is about half the length. Anthers coherent. 



In ponds and ditches. Apparently very rare, but likely to be 

 passed over as U. vulgaris. The only specimen I have seen is from a 

 pond at Broomfield near Newlands Wood, Essex, collected in 1837 

 by Mr. A. Wallis. A plant in the British Museum Ilerbariun collected 

 by Edward Forster in a pit in llainault Foi'est probably belongs to 

 this species. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer. 



E.xtremely similar to U. \ndgaris, but certainly a distinct species. It 

 is about the same size, but much more slender, the segments of the 

 leaves finer, the bladders smaller and fewer in number; the pedicels 

 much more slender, much longer, and not recurved after flowering; 

 the caly.x is also much shorter. The greatest ditference, however, is in 

 the small size of the palate, which is shorter and much narrower in 

 proportion ; the margin of the lower \\\) also spreads horizontally, instead 

 of (as in U. vulgaris) being bent do\\ni at right Angles to the plane of 

 the slit between the upper and under lip. I have not seen the flowers 



