ABSTRACT
This chapter shows many species of Utricularia and of two closely allied genera, inhabiting the most distant parts of the world Europe, Africa, India, the Malay Archipelago, Australia, North and South America are admirably adapted for capturing by two methods small aquatic or terrestrial animals, and that they absorb the products of their decay. Utricularia montana species inhabits the tropical parts of South America, and is said to be epiphytic; but, judging from the state of the roots of some dried specimens from the herbarium at Kew, it likewise lives in earth, probably in crevices of rocks. It seemed to an interesting question whether the minute bladders of Utricularia montana served to capture animals living in the earth, or in the dense vegetation covering the trees on which this species is epiphytic. The bladders are filled with water, and sometimes include bubbles of air. They bear internally rather short, thick, quadrifid processes arranged in approximately concentric rows.
