egg-shaped, fleshy, not veined, covered with minute, raised, crys- 
talline points, their margins involute (rolled in). Scapes fjlower- 
salks) from 3 to 5 inches high, single-flowered. Flowers droop- 
ing, rather handsome. Tube and spur of the Corolla pale purple ; 
palate covered with white compactly jointed hairs ; limb deep 
blue, its 5 segments very unequal, all entire. Stamens 2, (see 
fig. 3.), short, white, thick, curved ; one on each side the rounded 
germen. Anthers 1-celled, vertical, placed just beneath the large 
horizontal plate or lobe of the stigma, which is spurred behind. 
Capsule (fig. 4.) egg-shaped, of 1 cell, bursting half way into two 
valves. Seeds (fig. 9.) numerous, small, oblong, rough, fixed to a 
free central column or receptacle f placenta J , see figs. 6, 7, & 8 . 
This singular and pretty plant is a native of other parts of Europe as well as 
of Britain. In Lapland it is called Tdtgrass, and the leaves are used by the 
inhabitants of that country to make their Tdtmiolh, a preparation of milk in 
common use amongst them. “ Some fresh leaves are laid upon a filler, and 
milk, yet warm from the rein-deer, is poured over them. After passing quickly 
through the filter, this is allowed to rest for one or two days, until it becomes 
ascescent, when it is found not to have separated from the whey, and yet to have 
attained much greater tenacity and consistence than otherwise it would have 
done.” FI. of Berwick, p. 8. 
The Laplanders and the Swedes are said to he extremely fond of this milk, 
which when once made, it is not necessary to repeat the use of the leaves as 
above, for, we are told, that a spoonful, or less of it, will turn another quantity 
of warm milk, and make it like the first, and so on as often as they please to re- 
new their food. 
The juice of the leaves is used, in some places, as an ointment for chops and 
scalds ; and it is reputed to be good for the sore dugs of cows. 
This, like other marsh plants, has been accused of occasioning the Rot in 
sheep that feed upon it. This is, however, rather to be attributed to the larvae 
of a flat insect called a fluke, (Fasciola hepaticaj which abound in marshy 
districts, adhering to the leaves of the plant, and thus being conveyed into the 
alimentary canal, than to the immediate agency of the Pinguicula. 
“ From experiments made on purpose, and conducted with accuracy, it ap- 
pears, that neither sheep, cows, horses, goats, nor swine, feed upon this plant.” 
Withering. 
Parkinson says that the Welsh prepare a cathartic syrup from this herb. — 
Dr. Johnston, (the author of a very excellent Flora of Benv. upon Tweed, in 
2 volumes ), in an address delivered by him to the Members of the Berwickshire 
Naturalist's Club, at its first Anniversary Meeting, held at Coldstream, Sept. 19, 
1832, remarks, that during their excursion to Cheviot, “ it was accidentally ob- 
served, that, when specimens of this plant were somewhat rudely pulled up, the 
flower-stalk, previously erect, almost immediately began to bend itself back- 
wards, and formed a more or less perfect segment of a circle ; and so, also, if a 
specimen is placed in the botanic box, you will in a short time find that the 
leaves have curled themselves backwards, and now conceal the root by their re- 
volution.” — I have myself, several years ago, observed this curious faculty in 
specimens of the same species gathered in the bogs under Bullington Green near 
Oxford , but I believe Dr. Johnston is the first who has recorded it. The old 
leaves in this species, like those of Pinguicula grandiflora, die away in the 
Winter, and buds or hypernacula are formed, which expand into perfect indi- 
viduals in the Spring. Some interesting observations, by Mr. John Denson, 
jun. on the nature of these buds, may be seen in Mr. Loudon’s Gardener’ s 
M agazine, vol. viii. p.685, in a foot note, accompanying Mr. Mallet’s paper 
on the cultivation of the Droseras and Pinguiculas. Those who have a desire 
to cultivate these two curious and interesting genera, will do well to consult Mr. 
Mallet’s paper. See the second page of folio 201 of this work, Article Dro- 
sera rotundifolia. 
