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CHAPTER 
XVIII. 
Urricu.aria (continued). 
Utricularia. montana — Description of the bladders on the subter- 
ranean rhizomes — Prey captured by the bladders of plants under 
culture and in a state of nature — Absorption by the quadrifid pro- 
cesses and glands—Tubers serving as reservoirs for water — 
Various other species of Utricularia — Polypompholyx — Genlisea, 
different nature of the trap for capturing prey — Diversified 
methods by which plants are nourished. 
UTRICULARIA MONTANA.—This species inhabits the 
tropical parts of South America, and is said to be 
epiphytic; but, judging from the state of the roots 
(rhizomes) of some dried spe- 
cimens from the herbarium 
at Kew, it likewise lives in 
earth, probably in crevices 
of rocks. In English hot- 
houses it is grown in peaty 
soil, Lady Dorothy Nevill 
was so kind as to give me 
a fine plant, and I received 
another from Dr. Hooker. 
The leaves are entire, instead 
of being much divided, as 
in the foregoing aquatic 
species. They are elongated, 
about 14 inch in breadth, 
and furnished with a dis- 
Fie. 26. 
(Utricularia montana.) 
Rhizome swollen into a tuber; the 
branches bearing minute bladders ; of 
natural size. 
tinct footstalk. The plant produces numerous colour- 
less rhizomes, as thin as threads, which bear minute 
bladders, and occasionally swell into tubers, as will 
