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Ramonda myconi, endemic to the Pyrénées, is found in this habitat and others species such as the Pyrenean saxifrage Saxifraga longifolia, Antirrhinum sempervirens and Pinguicula longifolia occur in the same habitat.
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A post at Pinguicula regarding the utility of saving digital images as RAW files prompted me to do some tests.
Archive 2006-03-01 AYDIN 2006
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BUTTERWORT, the popular name of a small insectivorous plant, _Pinguicula vulgaris_, which grows in wet, boggy land.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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In the nearly related land form, _Pinguicula_, however, there is much the same arrangement as in the sundew.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Its flowers much resemble the small wild violet of the hedgerows, in size and colour more especially; the flower-stalks are, however, sometimes branched, carrying four or five flowers; and if I may be allowed to make another comparison in order to convey an idea of its form, I would mention _Pinguicula vulgaris_, the common butterwort.
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Pinguicula, certain animal characteristics of, 107
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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Thus in the pelting rain we secure some specimens of the Orobus lutens, Dryas octopetela, Primula Farinosa, Pinguicula grandifora, Cynanchum Vincitoxicum, Orchis nigra, &c., &c.; besides several varieties of cyclamen, gentians, and ferns.
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Butterwort (Pinguicula) is another of these carnivorous plants.
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873
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_Pinguicula, _ (a genus not previously found in the Himalaya),
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Is it compensation for the Pinguicula vulgaris, which has been drained away, or the mountain pink at Highbridge, which I suspect some gardener of appropriating?
John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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