. Flowers of the field. Botany. BUTTERWORT FAMILY 375 of the water to open. The Butterworts are small, terrestrial plants with rosettes of radical leaves with inrollcd margins, and viscid, glandular surfaces which capture small flies. Their solitary purple flowers have some resemblance to violets. (Common Butterwort) has the property of giving con- sistence to milk and of preventing it separating into either whey or cream. Linnteus says that the solid milk of the Laplanders is prepared by pouring it, warm from the cow, over a strainer on which fresh leaves of Pinguicula have been laid. The mil
. Flowers of the field. Botany. BUTTERWORT FAMILY 375 of the water to open. The Butterworts are small, terrestrial plants with rosettes of radical leaves with inrollcd margins, and viscid, glandular surfaces which capture small flies. Their solitary purple flowers have some resemblance to violets. (Common Butterwort) has the property of giving con- sistence to milk and of preventing it separating into either whey or cream. Linnteus says that the solid milk of the Laplanders is prepared by pouring it, warm from the cow, over a strainer on which fresh leaves of Pinguicula have been laid. The milk, after passing among them, is left for a day or two to stand, until it begins to turn sour; it throws up no cream, but becomes compact and tenacious, and most de- licious in taste. It is not necessary that fresh leaves should be used after the -milk is once turned ; on the contrary, a small por- tion of this solid milk will act upon that which is fresh, in the manner of ;—(LindJiY-) 1. — Sub- merged, aquatic plants with much divided leaves bear- ing bladders ; calyx of two equal sepals : corolla per- sonate. 2. PiXGUicuLA. Ter- restrial plants with radica ' Pingiiicida vulgaris. L'TKlCrLARlA Bl'iiidiriLVy^). 1 leaves and solitary flowers; -lipped, upper lip 3-cleff, lower 2-cleft ; edrolla gaping. I. Utricularia (Bladderwort).—.Submerged, rootless, aquatic with floating?, much divided leaves, with thread-like bearing small bladders ; floicers few, in a raceme, plants segments,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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