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somewhat downy. Flowers purple, very handsome, drooping ; palat 

 covered with white compactly jointed hairs. Anthers vertical, placed 

 just beneath the large horizontal plate or lobe of the stigma. "Caps 

 ovate, 1 -celled, bursting half-way into 2 valves. — The leaves are hAi 

 to coagulate milk, whence the English name. 



2. P. grandiflora WilW. Qarge-flowered B.) ; spur subulate- 

 cylindrical often notched about as long as the veined limb of 

 the corolla whose segments are very unequal broadly obovate 

 wavy contiguous or overlapping at the edges, the middle one of 

 the lower lip notched, capsule ovate obtuse. E. B. t. •2184. 



Western part of the county of Cork, in marshy ground ; and at 



Kenmare. 2/1. 5, 6 This beautiful plant, apparently as rare upon 



the Continent as in Britain, may be easily cultivated for a succession 

 of years ; like P. vulgaris, its old leaves die away in winter, and 

 buds or hybernacula are formed, which expand into perfect individuals 

 in the spring. It must be confessed, indeed, that the above characters 

 are obtained solely from cultivated specimens, and that we have seen 

 dried wild ones which we were uncertain whether to refer here or to 

 the preceding species. " ^ . 



3. P. alpina L, (alpine J9.) ; spur conical shorter than the 

 unequal limb of the corolla and curved towards the lower 

 retuse lip, scape glabrous, capsule acute. E. B. S. t 2747. 



Bogs in Scotland, very rare. Isle of Skye. Bogs of Aughterflow 



and Shannon, on the Rose Haugh property, Ross-shire. %, 6, 



Leaves qluA flowers about the size of P. Lusitanica ; but the texture 

 of the foliage most resembles that of P. vulgaris. Corolla yellowish ; 

 within on the under side is a tuft of deep-yellow crystalline hairs. 

 Spur remarkably short and conical, curved upwards. 



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4. P. Lusitanica L. {pale B.) ; spur cylindrical obtuse de- 

 curved shorter than the almost equal limb of the corolla, leaves 



veiny and as well as the scape hairy, capsule globose. E. B. 

 t. 145. 



Marshy places and wet moors, chiefly confined to the west side of 

 the kingdom : never, we believe, found on the east side, and rarely in the 

 Interior. Plentiful in the Hebrides and Ireland, but most abundant 

 in the extreme north of Scotland, near Cape Wrath. %. 6 10. 



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2. Utbicularia Linn. Bladderwort.^ 

 Cal bipartite, upper lobe entire, lower often notched or 2- 



1 The British species of this genus are aU aquatics : and their' roots, stems, and 

 even ieaves, are furnished with numerous, membranaceous reticulated vesicles, 

 which according to Hayne, are filled with water, till it is necessary the plant 

 should rise to the surface and expand its blossoms above that fluid. The vesicles 

 are then found to contain only air, by aid of which the plant floats ; this air again 

 in autumn gives place to water, and the plant descends to ripen its seeds at the 

 bottom. Mr, Wilson observes, with reference to the bladders of U. vulgaris, that 

 they have an orifice closed by an elastic valve, opening inwards, and of much thin- 

 ner texture than the bladder, to which it is attached, where the crest is placed. 

 Aquatic insects often enter these bladders, and are, of course, confined there/' 



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