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59. V.ramoja. Branching Drooping Bladderwort. Vahl 



n. 31 " Stalk fimple or branched, with few flowers. Spur 



conical, fhort. Fruit-ftalks drooping."— Found by Koemg 

 in the Eaft Indies. Roots fimple, and very (hort. Stalk a. 

 finger's length, angular, fometimes fimple, often divided, 

 the branches once or twice fubdivided, two or three-flowered. 

 Scales, as well as iraSeas, ovate. Flowers fmall. Fahl. 



60. U. capillacea. Capillary Bladderwort. WiUd. n. 9. 

 Vahl n. 32.—" Stalk capillary, with about three drooping 

 flowers. Spur round, bluntifti. Capfules awl-(haped."— 

 Gathered by Dr. Rottler, in watery places in the Eaft Indies. 

 Root of feveral naked, fomewhat branched, fibres. Vahl 

 found, in one fpecimen, at the fide of the crown of the root, 

 an oblong-roundifh bulb, the fize of a Coriander-feed, 

 clothed with briftles ; feparate at the fummit and bafe, but 

 attached to the root by a central ring. He juftly prefumed 

 this to be a bud, by which the plant increafes itfelf. The 



jalk is often hardly an inch high, angular, bearing one, 

 two or thret flowers, on (hort, drooping partial flalks, each 

 accompanied, at the bafe, by an extremely minute ovate 

 braaea. Capfule awl-(haped ; covered by the permanent 

 calyx. IT 11 



61. U. mlnutijfma. Little Malacca Bladderwort. Vahl 

 n. 33.— Stalk capillary, two or three-flowered, un- 

 branched. Scales and bradeas pointed. Spur conical. 

 Lower calyx-leaf broadeft, concave, keeled — Gathered by 

 Koenig, in the neighbourhood of Malacca. Root fibrous, 

 fmall. Stem two inches high in our original fpecimens, 

 Vahl fays half an inch, or an inch. It appears to elongate 

 itfelf, after flowering, by a lateral, upright, fimple (hoot, as 

 is the cafe with graminifolia, n. 19, and fome others. Scales 

 one or two, tapering at each end, fmall. Flowers one, two, 

 three or even four, each on a very fliort partial Jlalh, with 

 feveral taper-pointed braSeas at its bafe. Corolla blue, ex- 

 tremely fmall, with a prominent fpur full as long as the 

 lips. Calyx inflated and enlarged confiderably as the fruit 

 ripens. 



62. U. comuta. Great Horned Bladderwort. Michaux 

 Boreal.-Amer. V. I. 12. Vahl n. 19. Purfli n. 8. (U. 

 fubulata; Herb. Linn, but not Sp. PI.) — Stalk creft, 

 nightly fcaly, with about two nearly feflile flowers. Spur 

 awl-lhaped, acute, rather curved, nearly as long as the very 



broad lower lip Near mountain lakes, from Canada to 



Virginia, flowering in July. Purfl. Our fpecimens from 

 Mr. Francis Boott, a young botanift of great zeal and aAi- 

 vity, have denfe alternate tufts of numerous radical fibres, 

 without leaves or bladders. Stalk a foot high, ftraight, 

 fmooth, bearing a few fmall, diftant, pale, membranous 

 fcales, and terminating in two or three crowded \zx^^ flowers, 

 of a bright yellow. Calyx-leaves broad, ovate, unequal, 

 coloured ; the lowermoil not half the length of the fpur. 

 Lower lip very broad, deflexed, cloven. Palate downy.— 

 Linnxus received this plant from Kalm, and laid it into his 

 herbarium for U. fubulata, which he had long before defcribed 

 from Gronovius's herbarium, but had forgotten the appear- 

 ance of it ; fee our 11. 45. We therefore adopt the name 

 given by Michaux, for what muil be confidered as not 

 defcribed by Liniiseus, he having no where adverted to 

 Kalm's fpecimens. Vahl erroneoufly ranges this with the 

 leafy fpecies. 



UTRICULUS, (a little bladder,) atermufedby Gxrt- 

 ner, for a particular fort of capfule, which he defines as " cf 

 one cell, and containing a folitary feed ; it is often very thin 

 and femitranfpareiit ; conllantly deftitute of valves, and of 

 a (hape approaching to ovate, or fomewhat globofe." He 

 adds, that " all naked feeds may, ftrialy fpeaking, be faid 

 to be inclofed in fuch a pericarp ; but he limits the applica- 

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tion of the above term to thofe coverings of feeds, which, in 

 the firft place, are capable of being rubbed off by a flight 

 friftion between the fingers, as in Chenopodium, Atriplex, 

 and Beta ; fecondly, to fuch as are furnilhed, within their 

 cavity, with an evident umbilical cord, as in Adonis, ThO' 

 liBrum, and Atragene ; thirdly, to thofe between which and 

 the feed there is a vacant fpace, or cavity, fnfficiently evi- 

 dent, of which Eleuflne, Achyranthes, Zueria, lUccebrum and 

 Polycnemum are examples ; and fourthly, to fuch as contain 

 their feed in an inverted pofition, fo that the radicle of the 

 embryo is turned towards the ftyle, as Callitriche, Zannicliel- 

 lia, Zo/lera, &c. ; the contrary pofition being moft ufual in 

 the greater number of naked feeds, as in the natural orders 

 of Gramina, Compoflttc, Verticillata, and Stellate." See Pe- 

 ricarp and Seed. 



UTRUM, Juris Utrum. See Juris, Assise, &c. 

 UTSCHENYA, in Geography, a cape on the north coaft 

 of Nova Zembla. N. lat. 77° 20'. E. long. 67° 24'. 

 UTSCHING. See Volga. 



UTSJOKI, a town of Swedifh Lapland ; 240 miles N. 

 of Tornea. N. lat. 69° 45'. E. long. 26° 54'. 



UTTA,atown of the ifland of Sardinia; 6raile8 W.S.W. 



of Cagliari Alfo, a river of Sardinia, which runs into the 



fea, near Caghari. 



UTTAMA, in Hindoo Mythology, is the name of one of 

 the feven holy men bearing the appellation of Menu, under 

 which article their names and fome notice of them will be 

 found. In fome theogonies Uttama is made the fon of Pa- 

 vaka, the regent of fire. 



UTTARI, in Ancient Geography, a town of Hifpania, on 

 the route fromBracara to Afturica, between Pons Neviae and 

 Bergidam. Anton. Itin. 



UTTENDORF, in Geography, a town of Bavaria, on 

 the Mattig ; 7 miles S. of Braunau. 



UTTER, Barrister, in Law. See Barrister. 

 UTTERCUL, in Geography, a province of Afl'am, north 

 of the Burhampooter. 



UTTINGEN, a town of the county of Wertheim ; 8 

 miles E. of Wertheim. 



UTTOXETER, an ancient market-town in the fouth 

 divifion of the hundred of Totmanflow, in the county of 

 Stafford, England, is fituated 13 miles N.E.by E. from the 

 county-town, and 136N.W. by N. from London, on the 

 weftern bank of the river Dove, over which is a ftone bridge, 

 conneding the counties of Stafford and Derby. Great da- 

 mage has been formerly fufl:ained by this town from fire : 

 but it is now large and well built, having a fpacious market- 

 place in the centre, with three ftreets branching out from it. 

 The market, whicli is held on Wednefdays, is confidered as 

 the greateft in this part of the country, for cattle, (heep, 

 pigs, butter, cheefe, corn, and all kinds of provifion and 

 agricultural produce. This is attributed to the extenfive 

 meadow and pafture lands in this diilrift, which are juftly 

 efteemed the moft fertile and luxuriant England can boaft. 

 Leland fays, " Uttok Ceftre one paroch chireli. Tlie menne 

 of the towne ufith grafing. For there be wonderful paftures 

 upon Dove. It longgith to the erledom of Lancafter." 

 Here are four annual fairs. In the population return of the 

 year i8li, this town is ftated to contain 637 houfes, occu- 

 pied by 3155 perfons. Of thefe, the chief fource of employ- 

 ment is the nianufatlure of iron, which is carried on to a 

 great extent, the town being furrounded by forges. A great 

 increafe in this trade has taken place, in confequence of the 

 facility of communication the town now enjoys by means of 

 the inland navigation, not only with the metropolis, but, 

 direftly or indiredtly, with every port in the kingdom. The 

 church is an ancient edifice, with a lofty fteeple, but no way 



remarkable 



