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of the funnel is clothed with elegant hairs of various 



forms, but very regularly 

 arranged, while the internal 

 surface of the pouch exhib- 

 its peculiar hairs consisting 

 of two cells, each running 

 out into a longer or shorter 

 arm." 



Fig. 8 represents the end 

 of a growing branch of U. 

 purpurea. Here we have a 

 species that diverges widely 

 from all of the others that 

 1 have examined, and as Mr. 

 Darwin gives no account of 

 any similar species, I shall 

 dwell more upon its man- 

 ner of growth and structure. 

 The finest specimens of this 

 plant that I have found were 

 growing in deep, still water. 

 The stems are long, some- 

 times two feet or more in 

 length, and these stems or 

 branches radiate in every 

 direction, so that one plant 

 often covers quite a large 

 surface of water. At the points where the branches 

 radiate, naked flowering stems shoot up, and stand above 



fig. s. — end op growing branch 

 of the utricularia purpurea 

 (natural size). 



