24 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Utricularia 
edges of which arise three or four very slender fibres, which possibly 
may be the real roots of the plant. This fluid, when greatly magnified, 
appears to contain a quantity of extremely minute solid particles. 
Hooded Water-milfoil. Great Bladderwort. (Irish: Fliugh iusge. 
Welsh: Chwysigenwraidd cyffiredin. E.) Wet ditches and stagnant 
Avaters. Ancot pool, near Salop. Mr. Aikin. In shallow waters on 
Birmingham Heath, (now drained. Near Bootle, between Crosby and 
Formby, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. Boggy ground, in Norfolk and 
Suffolk, not unfrequent. Mr. Woodward. At Hell Kettles, and Polam, 
near Darlington. Mr. J. Backhouse, jun. Winch Guide. Anglesey, 
Welsh Bot. Between Bainton and Burford, Oxfordshire. Rev. W. 
Rufford. Purton. Between Rosmorran and Kenegie, Cornwall. Dr. 
Forbes. In pits to the left of the road half a mile beyond King’s Teign- 
ton, leading towards Newton, Devon. E.) P. July. 
(U. intermedia. Nectary conical; upper lip twice as long as the 
palate ; leaves crowded in three deep-forked segments. 
E. Bot. 2489_ FI. Dan. 1261. 
Smaller than U. Vulgaris. Bloss. of a paler yellow; only half the size; 
has a longer upper lip. Leaves fringed. Vesicles detached on branched 
stalks. Plant propagating itself by dense, green, terminal buds. Hayne. 
Sm. Hook. 
Intermediate Bladderwort. Irish: Linaneagh. U. intermedia. Hayne. 
In ditches and pools, rare. In a ditch by the side of Rescalin Lakes 
four miles E. of Forfar. Mr. D. Don. For English stations and specimens 
we are indebted to Mr. Winch, who has found this rare plant about 
Prestwick Carr, Northumberland, intermixed with U. vulgaris; also in 
a ditch at the foot of Derwentwater. In Ireland it has been found in a 
bog on the top of a hill about two miles from Dunmanway, on the road to 
Bantry. P. July. E.) 
U. mi'nor. Nectary keel-shaped, (deflexed, short, blunt. E.) 
Schmid. 21— E. Bot. 254— FI. Dan. 128— Pluk. 99. 6 — Pet. 36. 12. 
Nectary indistinct; pointing downwards. Mouth of the bloss. open, gaping ; 
without a prominent palate. Roots hair-like, very slender, buoyant; 
beset with small membranous bladders. Stalk as long as a finger, sim¬ 
ple, very slender; dividing toward the top into three fruit-stalks, with 
three floral leaves. Root-leaves winged, hair-like; little leaves few; 
equal. Cal. with the lower leaves reflexed. Bloss. two petals; gaping. 
Upper-lip horizontal, heart-shaped, perforated at the base, fixed to the 
receptacle. Lower-lip larger, heart-shaped, reflexed at the sides; gib¬ 
bous at the base on the under side, prominent and keel-shaped. Germen 
egg-shaped. Style simple, short. Summit between egg and tongue¬ 
shaped. Bloss. a paler yellow than in the preceding species. Linn. (About 
half as large as those of IT. intermedia ; five or six in number; palate 
not closing the mouth, equal in length to the upper-lip. E.) 
Least Bladderwort. (Welsh: Chwysigenwraidd lleaif E.) Ditches 
and muddy ponds, rare. Common on bogs in Suffolk. St. Faith’s 
Bogs, near Norwich. Mr. Pitchford. Ditches adjoining Outerthwaite, 
near Flookburg in Cartmel, with U. vidgaris. Mr. Jackson. (Chartley 
Moss and Norton Bog, Staffordshire. Mr. Bagot. Bogs in Scotland and 
Ireland. Mr. Brown. Sparingly near Bootle and Little Crosby, near 
Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. Roy don Fen, near Diss, in Norfolk. Mr. 
Woodward. Bogs at Ampthill; Potton Marshes, Bedfordshire. Abbot. 
