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PIN GUI CUL A grandiflora.
Large-flowered Butter-wort.
DIANDRId Monogynia.
G en. C har. Cor. ringent, spurred. Cal. two-lipped,
with five segments. Capsule of one cell.
S pec. C har. Nectary cylindrical, pointed, as long as
the petal. Upper lip roundly lobed: lower reticulated.
Capsule ovate.
Syn. Pinguicula grandiflora. Decand. FI. Franc, v. 1.
250. v. 3. 575. Lamarck. Diet. v. 3. 22. Illustr.
t. 14./ . 2. _______
T h e Rev. Mr. Hincks, Secretary to the Cork Institution,
has favoured us with fine specimens of this Pinguicula, new
to our Flora, found plentifully in marshy ground in the west
part of that county, by Mr. Drummond, curator of the botanic
garden at Cork, from whose accurate remarks we extract
the following.— “ The leaves are nearly twice as large as those
o f P . vulgaris, t. 70, more veiny, and yellower. Flower-stalks
from 6 to 9 inches high, more viscous and stronger. Calyx
more obtuse. The chief difference lies in the corolla, which
in this is finely reticulated all over with dark blue veins, and
twice as large as in vulgaris. It flowers in May; loses all its
leaves, and forms into little scaly bulbs in the winter. P . lu-
sitanica, t. 145, very common in that part of Ireland, keeps
its leaves through the winter. P . vulgaris is not found
there.”— Mr. Drummond brought roots of this newly discovered
species to his garden in July, when they were quite
out of bloom, and our specimens were produced the following
spring, 1810. In a wild state the corolla was still larger than in
these. From the accounts and figure in the works above quoted,
we presume there can be no doubt of its being the plant intended
by their authors, as Mr. Hincks first suggested to us.