22 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Pinguicula. 
PINGUIC'ULA.* Bloss. gaping, terminating in a spur: Cal. 
two-lipped, five-cleft: Caps, one cell. 
P. lusitan'ica. Nectary blunt, shorter than the petal: stalk hairy : 
capsule globular. 
{Hook. FI. Loud. 187. E.)— E. Bot. 145— Light/. 6.1. 
Leaves semi-pellucid, marked with purplish veins, the edges rolled in. 
The Jlowers smaller, and with more of a reddish cast than in P. vulgaris. 
Ray. Whole plant rather pubescent. We are indebted to Smith for 
dissipating the doubts which had been entertained respecting this plant. 
It had been referred to P. villosa and alpina, but living plants sent by 
Dr. Pulteney enabled him to decide it to be P. lusitanica of Linnaeus. 
Bloss. segments equal, lilac-coloured, (throat yellow. Flower-stalk three 
or four inches high, clothed below with viscid hairs. According to Mr. 
Drummond, the leaves remain during winter. E.) 
Pale Butterwort. Marshes in Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Devonshire, 
and Cornwall, frequent. Hudson. (Still more abundant in the north¬ 
west of Scotland. E.) Near Ayr, and Island of Lamlash, Scotland. Dr. 
Hope. About Kilkampton. Midway from Oakampton to Launceston, 
betwixt a great wood and the river, in boggy meadows. Ray. Lewesdon 
Hill, Dorsetshire. Mr. Baker; more common in that county than P. vul¬ 
garis. (In a bog half way between Newton Limwady and Londonderry, 
by the road side. Mr. Brown. Marshes on Alderbury Common, Wilt¬ 
shire. Dr. Maton, in Bot. Guide. In a little swamp on Maiden Down, 
opposite the Maidenhead Inn, Somersetshire. Mr. Sole, ditto. Frequent 
in Hampshire. E.) P. June—July. 
P. vulga'ris. Nectary cylindrical, acute, as long as the petal : cap¬ 
sule egg-shaped. 
Dicks, 7i. s — {Hook. FI. Lond. 104. E.)— E. Bot. 70— FI. Dan. 93— Clus. i. 
310. 2— Ger. Em. 788. 2~Ger. 644—<7. B. iii. 546. 1 —Park. 532. 2— H. 
Ox. v. 7.13. 
{Plant about five inches high. Scape single-flowered. E.) Leaves covered 
with soft upright prickles, secreting a glutinous liquor, (thick, not veined. 
E.) Bloss. drooping, violet, purple and reddish, with white lips, and an 
ash-coloured woolly spot on the palate. 
Common Butterwort. Yorkshire Sanicle. (Scotch: Earning Grass. 
Irish: Bodan Mcasgar. W elsh: Toddaidd melyn cyffredin. Gaelic: Brogan- 
na-cuaig. Moan. E.) On bogs. Broadmoor, three miles S.W. of Birming¬ 
ham. Mr. Brunton. On the N.W. side of Malvern Hills, but not on the S. 
or S. E. side. Mr. Ballard. (Cfosby Marsh, near Liverpool, Dr. Bostock. 
Boggy ground in Norfolk and Suffolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward. On bogs 
in Purbeck ; on the heaths near Poole and Wareham, but rare. Pulteney. 
Anglesey. Welsh Bot. On the right hand side of the road leading over 
the moors from Whitby to Gisborough, about five miles from the latter 
place. Dr. Hull records a variety, which he observed on the right hand 
side of the road from Buxton to Disley, three miles from the former place, 
in Autumn, with te leaves lanceolate, obtuse, in length more than four 
times greater than their breadth.” E.) P. May.t 
(* Pinguis, fat; from its effect in congealing milk. E.) 
*|* If the fresh-gathered leaves be put into the filtre or strainer through which warm 
milk from the rein-deer is poured, and the milk is set by for a day or two to become 
ascescent, it acquires consistence and tenacity j the whey does not separate, nor does the 
