The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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G E N U S XIIl. 
HOODED MILLFOIL. 
LENTIBULARIJ. 
THE flower confiUs of a finglc petal, approaching to the labiated fhape: it is formed into two 
lips, a palate, and a fpiir : the upper lip is undivided and obtufe ; the lower lip is larger, and 
is alfo undivided the palate which rifcs between them is heart- faOiioned : the fpur is fmall, snd 
runs out behind the flower. The cup is compofed of ten little hollow leave?, and falls with the flower : 
the feed-vefiel is round and large. 
Linnffius feparaces 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 capfuic fingle. 
He alfo takes away its ufual and received name knlihiilaria, and calls it ulricularia. 
1 have rcftored the former and familiar 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 confidcration, when feen, in com- 
petition with the efl"ential characters, by which it is placed among the plants that have a flower con- 
Ming'of a Angle petal, and followed by a Angle capfule ; this being the general diftinttion of the 
prcfent clafs. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
r. Common Hooded Millfoil. 
Lentibularia 'vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of a vail tuft of fibres. 
From this grow numerous long and flender 
fhoots, which fpirad 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 diftinfl: place on them, but irregularly among 
them, and in a great number ; feme terminate the 
fhoots, and others are difpofed loolely among the 
leaves. 
The ftalks rife from thefe fl-ioots, and are flen- 
der, weak, and naked. 
From the middle upwards grow the flowers: 
thefe fliand fingly on long footfl:alks, and are 
large and yellow: the fpur is of a conic figure. 
The feed vefiel is large and round : the feeds 
are numerous and fmal!. 
It is common in ditches, and other flagnating 
waters in the fens in Lincolnfhire, and effe- 
vvliere; and flowers in July, 
C. Hauhine calls it Millefolium aqiialicum lenti- 
culaium. The common writers, Millifolium gale- 
riciilcJum^ and Hooded water millfoil. 
2. Little Hooded Millfoil. 
Lentibularia minima. 
This is an excreamly minute but very pretty 
plant. 
The roots are a few, white, long, and extreamly 
fmall fibres. 
The firfl: flioots from thefe are numerous, 
long, flender, and naked for the moftpart; but 
fometimes there grow on them a few fmall and 
finely divided lea\'e3 : whether there be leaves oc 
not, there are conftantly many little round bodies, 
perfectly refembling thofe of the common kind. 
The fl:alks are minute, extreamly flender, and 
naked. 
They arc ufually of a yellowifh colour, fome- 
times redifh ; and on thefe fliand the flowers. 
They are large, and of a pale yellow: they 
have each a feparate, fliort footftalk ; and they 
grow at difl:ances, one above another, from the 
middle of the flalk to the top. 
The feed-veflel is round and fmall ; and the 
feeds are very minute. 
It is common in Northamptonfliire, and in 
many places where it is not much regarded, 
floating upon the water. 
It flowers in June. 
Plukenct calls it Millifolium fnkjlre galericu- 
latum minus Jloreminore. Ray, Lentibularia minor, 
Boccone, Aparine aquis innatans capreoUs donata. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
I, Large-leaved Lentibularia, 
Lentibularia folUs majoribus. 
The roor is compofed of numerous long, black 
fibres. 
Tli£ ^rfl filoots fprcid upon the furface, and 
arc large, and very finely divided ; fo that they 
relemble thofe of fume of the water crowfoots. 
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Among thefe grow feveral flioots, that fpread 
likewife in the fame manner, and have leaves 
on them like the firfl from the root, but 
fmaller. 
The ftalks rife, fome from thefe, and others 
from the root : they are flender and yellowifh : 
they are not naked, as thofe of the preceding 
fpecies, but have leaves of the fame kind with 
K k thofe 
