g2 PINGUICULA LUTEA.—YELLOW BUTTERWORT. 
gent, of Cambridge, Mass., we are indebted for the specimen 
from which our drawing was made, reports that it is one of the 
most beautiful of the early floral attractions of that State. Other 
observers from further northward report that it often grows in 
immense patches in rather sandy places, especially in the Pine 
barrens, where, in March, it forms. brilliant golden sheets of 
bloom. Its favorite situation seems to be in locations rather 
damp than dry. 
To botanists it is an old acquaintance, having been noted by 
Walter, who published a “ Flora of Carolina,” in 1788. Lamarck, 
in 1792, named it Pinguicula campandlata, but the prior name of 
Walter's, under botanical rules, is the accepted one. Beyond 
this it has no synonyms of importance, though Professor Gray 
notes that it probably has some varieties. 
The natural order to which it belongs, Lentibulariacee, is a 
very small one, containing scarcely half a dozen genera, of which 
Utricularia and our present genus constitute the most important 
representatives. The name Lentibulariacee is derived from 
what was once the genus Lezéebularta, but which has since 
been absorbed by Utricularia, the well-known and _ curious 
“ Bladderwort.” 
Our artist has presented the flowers in so many aspects that a 
detailed explanation is scarcely necessary. Fig. 2 shows the 
two-lipped character of the calyx when divested of the corolla, 
but this also appears from the back view of one of the expanded 
flowers. 
