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Plate 40] POLEMONIUM UTRICULARIA 75
shorter than the calyx. Calyx bell-shaped, lobes egg-shaped or
lance-shaped-oblong. Corolla blue, sometimes white, 2-3 times
longer than the calyx, 1 in. diameter or more. Stamens 5,
attached near the base of the corolla, bearded at the base,
generally as long as the corolla. Style slightly longer than
the corolla. Capsule in. -J- long, ellipsoid, overtopped by the
persistent calyx. Seeds x^ in - long, many, oblong, smooth,
black, not winged.
Flowers. May to August.
Locality. Gulmarg, fir forests, above 8,000-8,700 ft., very
common
;
Tangmarg, forests 7,200-8,700 ft. ; below Tosh
Maidan, 9,600 ft. ;
Basam Gali in Juniper tract, above
10,000 ft.
Distribution. Alpine W. Himalaya, 7,000-12,000 ft., from
Kashmir to Kumaon, Central and N. Asia, Europe. N. America.
LENTIBULARIACEAE.
The Butterwort Family.
(Derived from lens, a lentil, and tubulus, a small tube, in allusion
to the lenticular shape of the air-bladders borne on the leaves of
many species.)
UTRICULARIA, Linn.
The Bladderworts.
(From utriculus, a small bo.g or bottle made from an animal's hide?
so named from the bladders connected with the leaves.)
A. In water.
I. Stems stout. Leaves li-3 in. long ... U. flexuosa.
II.
Stems very slender.
1 . Leaves not much dissected, about i in.
long. Corolla yellow with darker
streaks
U. exoleta.
2. Leaves much dissected. Corolla pale
yellow... ... ... ... ... U. minor.
B. On land ... ... ... ... ... U. striatula.
Fig. 6. Utricularia flexuosa, Vahl. Bladderwort.
Coventry, pi. XXXIX.
(Flexuosa means full of windings, tortuous, alluding
to the stem.)
An aquatic herb, all, except the inflorescence, under water.
Stolons stout, much-branched and often very long. Leaves
14 to 3 in. long, usually in whorls of 4, pinnately divided into
many filiform comblike segments, each leaflet usually bearing
at its base a small, almost globose bladder which becomes