= : f ae 
218. DROSERA. LZ. (Sun-dew.). 
3. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 141 
{Hit Flowers pentapetalous, inferior 
e 
Calix 5-cleft, persistent. Petals 5.  Anthers 
lobed, growing to the filaments. Germ supe- 
rior. Style 1. Stigmas 3 or 4 divergent, deeply 
bifid. Capsule 1-celledy 3 or 4-valved, many- 
rity Seeds attached to the middle of each 
valve, 
3 : Y Did. eeme sO u | 
long, obtuse, smooth; petals oblong; stigmata 3 or 4, deeply 
bifid, apex clavate, capsule 3-valved; seeds very nume-- 
Herbaceous; leaves radical, alternate, stipulate, laminz 
discoid or elongated, denticulately ciliated and covered 
with glandulous, capitate filaments, somewhat resembling 
the tentaculi of some marine animals, and capable of slow 
contraction in order to retain and destroy irritating insects; 
flowers in cymose racemes; scape at first circinately invo- 
lute, petals marcesent. A genus yery nearly allied to 
Dion@a, ee : 
Species. 1. D. rotundifolia. Ons. Leaf suborbiculates 
dilated, petiole elongated, hairy on the upper side; ra 
Cemie: latte 
the calix Tnear-ob 
rous, subulately alated, imbricate, longer than the breadth 
ofthe valves. - 
2. longifolia. » Ons. Caudex elongated 4 or 8 inches 
after the manner ofa stem. Leaves 2 to 4 inches long, 
obovate, disk and ciliate margin glandular; stipules about 
- 10-cleft, caplet raceme simple; flowers 
segments F ; 
long, obtuse, short. Has. Both these species are com- 
Mon near Philadelphia, but paaorey in New cy 
3. brevifolia, Pur'sh. Ons. Sc: or 3 inches high, 
: simple; leaves cuneate, suborbiculate, denticulately ciliate, 
disk glanduliferous, marked with an obcordate nerve (as 
in all the preceding); petiole scarcely longer than the 
_ oblong-oval, obtuse; stigmata 3, deeply tieghein. » oy, : s 
me, 
lamina, smooth on the upper side; stipules scariose, 3 or 
4-cleft; segments-of the calix, which is smooth, 
capsule 3-valved; seeds black, minute, shorter than 
' breadth of the valves, oblong-ovate, obtuse at each extre- 
mity.—Has. From North Carolina to Georgia, on the . 
- margins of sandy ponds; often in dry and arid situations. 
 Slearly 
allied to D. Burmanni of Ceylon and Cochinchina. 
“the calix oblong-ovate, obtuse. Seeds ob- 
