strictly ascertained. Since then it has been included by 
Monsieur Richard, in his order of Lentibularie or Bladder- 
wort-tribe, consisting of aquatic or marshy plants, the cha- 
racter of which has been still more recently definéd by Mr. 
Brown. ; { 
The generic appellation of Pincurcuta refers to the 
unctuous shining appearance of the foliage of the common 
european species; so do the english and french ones of 
Butterwort and Grassette. 
JLutea is a native of North America, where. it grows in’ 
the pine-barrens of Lower Carolina, and differs from its 
congeners by a yellow crenated corolla, with a tufted pro- 
fruded palate. It has been now first introduced by Messrs. 
Colvilles, nurserymen in .the King’s Road, Chelsea, who 
flowered it last May in pots of bog-earth, placed in pans of 
water on the flue of their hothouse. The plants had been 
sent them by Mr. Nuttall, a very intelligent collector, now 
m-America. © ~ ' eS 
Root perennial. Leaves radical,multifarious, imbricately 
ambient,. spreading, ovate obtuse, an inch or more ip 
length, vesicularly speckled. Seapes from the root, 2-3, one- 
flowered, filiform,-upright, 2-7 inches high, covered with 
short glandularly capitate hairs. . Calyx green, with ,a 
greyish pubescence, segments blunt. Corolla about three 
fourths of an inch or. more across, ‘obsoletely bilabiate ; 
limb flat,‘ nearly equal, resupinate,. the two segments of the. 
upper lip (by the inversion of the flower become the dower ), 
obcordate, rather narrower, deeply emarginate, converging 
at their-inner margins, the three of the dower (by inversion 
the upper) cuneately obcordate, each crenated with about 
4 incisions ; palate bearded, deep yellow, protruded beyond 
the orifice of the tube of the corolla; spur 3 times or more 
shorter than the corolla, subulate, pointing downwards’ 
with a curve. Stigma subpetaloid, unequally bilabiate, 
placed transversely on the germen, and consisting of two 
flat laminar lobes, the lowermost and largest of which bends 
itself downwards, so as to lap over the two stamens inserted: 
below the base of the germen in front, assuming an upright 
direction. when thé anthers have parted with the pollen; 
the upper lip or laminar lobe is several times smaller, pa-. 
rallel--with- the- back- of- the-larger..-.Germen- unilocular, 
speckled with small whitish pustules. . 
Vt The back of the calyx. & The corolla removed from the calyx. ¢ The 
same dissected thro’ the spur or nectary,. and showing the palate or upper 
side of the faux. d The two stamens, detached. e The pistil. Ce 
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