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U TRI CUL A R I A intermedia
Intermediate Hooded-Milfoil.
/fC
DIANDRIA Monogynia.
Gen. C har. Cal. of two equal leaves. Cor. ringent,
spurred. Capsule superior, of one cell.
Spec. C har. Nectary conical. Stalk two- or three-
flowered. Upper lip flat, twice as long as the
palate. Leaves crowded, in three deep forked
segments.
Syn. Utricularia intermedia. Hayne in Schrad. Journ.
fo r 1800. 18. t. 5. Vahl Enum. v. 1. 198.
U . vulgaris minor. Linn. S p .P l. 26. El. Suec. 9*
F o u n d by the late Dr. Scott near Dublin, and by Miss
Hutchins in the west of Ireland; we know not of its having been
observed in Britain. Linnaeus says it grows along with the
U. vulgaris, t. 253, in Sweden, nor did he distinguish them as
species ; at which we cannot but wonder. The present is remarkable
for the long leafy branches, and comparatively small number
of air-vessels. Each leaf is deeply divided into three parts, and
those are variously and repeatedly forked; all the segments linear,
acute, slightly hinged. The slender stalk bears but two, or at
most three, flowers, which are smaller than those of the vulgaris,
with a flatter upper lip. These having never been found in Ireland,
Mr. Sowerby has been obliged to copy them from a plate
in a German work published by Dreves and Hayne. We received
a perfect specimen horn the last-named botanist, through
the hands of Dr. Schrader, in whose Journal this species is described
; but the volume which contains it not having reached us,
we trust to Valii for the above reference.