An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . Walt. (Fig. 7, pi. 147.) Purple scape 1 to G in. high, without leaves or with scale-like leaves, bear-ing 1 to 4 flowers. Branches long, floating, the dissected leaves bearingnumerous air bladders. Corolla purple. Ponds, mostly near the 7. U. vulgaris, L. (Fig. 1, pi. 147.) Common scape with a few scales or none, stout, 3 to 14 in. higli, l)earingfrom 3 to 20 rather


An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . Walt. (Fig. 7, pi. 147.) Purple scape 1 to G in. high, without leaves or with scale-like leaves, bear-ing 1 to 4 flowers. Branches long, floating, the dissected leaves bearingnumerous air bladders. Corolla purple. Ponds, mostly near the 7. U. vulgaris, L. (Fig. 1, pi. 147.) Common scape with a few scales or none, stout, 3 to 14 in. higli, l)earingfrom 3 to 20 rather large yellow flowers. Branches floating, sometimesa foot long, leaves in thread-like divisions, the .segments round, bearingbladders. Brooks and ponds, our area. June-Aug. 8. U. clandestina, Nutt. (Fig. 12, pi. 147.) Hidden-fruited Blad-PERWoiiT. Scape .slender, 2 to 5 in. high, bearing from 3 to .j yellowflowers. Branches floating, spreading, with many finely divided leaveswith bladders and with closed bulblets (cleistogamic flowers), on ratherlong fiower stems arising from the branches among the leaves. Shallowponds, mostly near the coast. July. BLADDEEWORT FAMILY 573. Plate 1471. Utricularia vrilgraris. 2. U. gibba. 3. U. biflora. 4. U. eleistogama. cornuta. 6. U. inflata. 7. U. purpurea. 8. U. subulata. 9. U. U. minor. 11, U, fibrosa. 12. U. clandestina 13 U. intermedia, lineare, 15. Pinguicula vulgaris. 574 OROBANCHACEAE 9. U. intermedia, Hayne. (Fig. 13, pi. 147.) Flat-leaved Bladdeb-WOUT. Flower scape with a few scales 2 to 10 in. high, beaiing 2 to 5yellow flowers. Branches floating. Leaves with 2 ranks of flattened, com-pound linear leaflets. Separate stems bear numerous large air , our area. June-Aug. 10. U. fibrosa, Walt. (Fig. 11, pi. 147.) Fibrous scape 5 to 12 in. high, with a few small scales, bearing 1 to 6yellow flowers, the middle lobe striped with red. Branches with few thread-


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