MANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Utbicularia. 23 
(P. grandiflo'ra. Nectary cylindrical, pointed, as long as the petal: 
upper lip roundly lobed: lower reticulated: capsule egg-shaped. 
Hook. FI. Fond. 128 — E. Bot. 2184. 
Leaves nearly twice as large as those of P. vulgaris , more veiny and yel¬ 
lower. Flower-stalks from six to nine inches high, more viscous and 
stronger. Calyx more obtuse. Blossom reticulated all over with dark 
blue veins, and twice as large as in P. vulgaris. It loses all its leaves 
and forms into little scaly bulbs in winter, (as indeed does P. vulgaris, 
to which it is altogether similar. FI. Lond. E.) P. lusitanica keeps its 
leaves all winter. P. vulgaris is not found where this species was dis¬ 
covered. E. Bot. 
Large-flowered Butterwort. This beautifully large and novel Pin- 
guicula has been found growing plentifully in marshy ground in the W. 
part of the county of Cork, by Mr. Drummond, Curator of the Botanic 
Garden at Cork. P. May. E.) 
UTRICULA^IA.* Bloss. gaping, terminating in a spur: Cal. 
two leaves, equal: Caps, one cell. 
U. vulga'ris. Nectary conical; stalk with few flowers; (upper lip of 
the blossom the length of the projecting palate. E.) 
E. Bot. 253 —FI. Ban. 138— Riv. 79—Pet. 36. 11—Ger. Em. 828. 5—J. 
B. iii. 783. 3— Park. 1258. 9— Schmid. 21. 12. at the bottom. 
{Stems prostrate in the water. Scape upright, five or six inches high, bear¬ 
ing six to eight flowers. E.) Calyx permanent; its lower leaf very 
slightly notched at the end. Bloss. full yellow; with purplish red 
streaks. Nectary blunt, lined with minute, shining, globular glands. 
Filaments thick, fleshy, crooked; fixed to the base of the germen. Sum¬ 
mit two lips; one very small; the other broad, flat, thin, fringed at the 
edge. After the impregnation of the germen, this larger lip closes the 
aperture of the style. Stalk cylindrical, scaly towards the top, and 
dividing into three. Leaves in whorls; thread-shaped, greatly branched 
and forked; set with minute whitish harmless thorns, and hollow vesi¬ 
cles, which have a glandular appearance; they contain a transparent 
watery fluid, and a small bulb of air, (enabling them to give buoyancy 
to the parts to which they are attached. E.) They are pear-shaped; 
but rather compressed; with an open border at the small end, from the 
cream; in this state it is an extremely grateful food, and as such is used by the inhabi¬ 
tants in the north of Sweden. There is no further occasion to have recourse to the 
leaves, for half a spoonful of this prepared milk, 
vert it to its own nature; and this again will chan 
so on without end. Linn.—This did not succeed wh 
The juice of the leaves kills lice; it is used to cure cracks or chops in cows’ udders, 
(whence the name it has obtained in Yorkshire. E.) The plant is generally supposed 
injurious to sheep; occasioning a disease which the farmers call the Rot. But it may be 
questionable whether the Hot in sheep is so much owing to the vegetables in marshy 
grounds, as to a flat insect called a fluke (Fasciola hepatica), which is found in these wet 
situations adhering to the stones and plants, and likewise in the livers and biliary ducts 
of sheep that are affected with the Rot. —From experiments conducted with accuracy, it 
appears, that neither sheep, cows, horses, goats, nor swine, feed upon this plant. (The 
Welsh prepare a cathartic sirup from this herb. Parkinson. E.) 
* (Utriculus, a little bladder; some such, of a glandular appearance, being appended 
to this plant. E.) 
nixed with fresh warm milk, will con- 
e another quality of fresh milk, and 
