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LENTIBULARIA, 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, approaching to the labiated fhape: it is formed into two 
lips, a palate, and a fpur: the upper lip is undivided and obtufe; the lower lip is larger, and 
is alfo undivided; the palate which rifes between them is heart-fafhioned: the fpur is fmall, and 
runs out behind the flower. The cup is compofed of ten little hollow leaves, and falls with the fower: 
the feed-veffel is round and large. 
Linnzus feparates this genus from the generality of the others, placing it, with a few more in his 
fecond clafs, among the diandria monogynia , the threads being two in each flower, and the rudiment 
of the capfule fingle. 
He alfo takes away its ufual and received name Jentibularia, and calls it utricularia, 
Ihave reftored the former and farniliar name, and joined the genus to thofe with which it is united 
by nature; the number of the threads in the centre being a trivial confideration, when feen, in com- 
petition with the effential characters, by which it is placed among the plants that have a flower con- 
fifting of a fingle petal, and followed by a fingle capfule; this being the general diftin&ion of the 
prefent clafs. 
D1 Va1eSerOaN et 
4. Common Hooded Millfoil. 
Lentibularia vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of a vat tuft of fibres. 
From this grow numerous long and flender 
fhoots, which fpread upon the mud at the bottom 
of thofe waters in which the plant grows. 
On thefe ftand the leaves: they are of a-dark 
green, beautifully divided, and as they are kept 
feparate by the water make a beautiful appear- 
ance; but when taken out they fall together and © 
loofe their fhape. 
Among thefe grow round bodies, of the big- 
nefs of the leaves of duckweed: they are not a 
regular part of the leaves, nor do they grow from 
any diftinét place on them, but irregularly among 
them, and in a great number 3 fome terminate the 
fhoots, and others are difpofed loofely among the 
leaves. 
The ftalks rife from thefe fhoots, and are flen- 
der, weak, and naked. 
‘From the middle upwards grow the flowers: 
thefe ftand fingly on long footftalks, and are 
large and yellow: the fpur is of a conic figure. 
The feed-veffel is large and round: the feeds 
are numerous and fmall. 
It is common in ditches, and other ftagnating 
waters in the fens in Lincolnfhire, and elfe- 
where; and flowers in July. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Millifolium aquaticum lenti- 
culatum, The common writers, Millifolium gale- 
riculatum, and Hooded water millfoil. 
DIVISION MIL. 
1. Large-leaved Lentibularia. 
Lentibularia foliis majoribus. 
’ The root is compofed of numerous tong, black 
fibres. 
The firft fhoots fpread upon the furface, and 
‘are large, and very finely divided; fo that they 
_ refemble thofe of fome of the water crowfoots. 
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2. Little Hooded Millfoil, 
Lentibularia minima. 
This is an extreamly minute but very pretty 
plant. 
The roots are a few, white, long, and extreamly 
finall fibres. ‘ 
The firft fhoots from thefe are numerous, 
long, flender, and naked for the moft part; bur 
fometimes there grow on them a few {mall and 
finely divided leaves: whether there be leaves or 
not, there are conftantly many little round bodies, 
perfectly refembling thofe of the common kind. 
The ftalks are minute, extreamly flender, and 
naked. : 
They are ufually of a yellowith colour, fome- 
times redifh; and on thefe ftand the flowers. 
They are large, and of a pale yellow: they” 
have each a feparate, fhort footftalk; and they 
grow at diftances, one above another, from the 
middle of the ftalk to the top. 
The feed-veffel is round and f{mall; and the 
feeds are very minute. 
It is common in Northamptonfhire, and in 
many places where it is not much regarded, 
floating upon the water. 
‘Tt flowers in June. 
Plukenet calls it Méllifolium paluftre galericu- 
latum minus flore minore. Ray, Lentibularia minor, 
Boccone, Aparine aquis innatans capreolis donata. 
FP: O-RVE: PIGIN © S°P EXC TES; 
Among thefe grow feveral fhoots, that fpread 
likewife in the fame manner, and have leaves 
on them like the firft from the root, but 
fmaller. ait: 
The ftalks rife, fome from thefe, and others 
from the root: they are flender and yellowith: 
they are not naked, as thofe of the preceding 
fpecies, but have leaves of the fame Kind with 
Kk thofe 
