124 Class V. Order V. 



DROSERA TENUIFOLIA. Muhl. Linear Sun-dew. 



Leaves filiform, scape radical, raceme mostly sim- 

 ple, styles about six. 



Syn. DROSERA FILIFORMIS.? Ph. Nutt. 



Leaves rolled inward when young, long and linear or filiform, 

 smooth and deeply channelled on the back, covered with glan- 

 dular hairs in front and sides. Scape erect, smooth, round, most- 

 ly simple. Raceme unilateral, recurved, mostly simple. Flow- 

 ers on short pedicels, erect, large. Calyx oval, hairj , its seg- 

 ments subacute. Petals five, purple, obovate, denticulate. Sta- 

 mens ten ; anthers oblong, yellow, crowded. Styles six, whitish, 

 declined from the gerrn so as to stand without the stamens, 

 which they exceed in length. 



Borders of ponds, abundant, Plymouth, Massachusetts, where 

 it was found by Judge Davis, twenty years ago, and lodged in 

 Professor Peck's herbarium. 



It will be seen that the foregoing description disagrees, in 

 several respects, with that of Mr. Nuttall under D. filiformis. 

 I am inclined, however, to believe them varieties of the same 

 species. 



135. STATICE. 



SATICE CAROLINIANA. Marsh Rosemary. 



Bigelow, Medical Botany, PI. xxv. 



Scape round and panicled ; leaves obovate-lanceo- 

 late, smooth, obtuse, mucronated, and flat on the 



margin. 



A purple flowering plant of the salt marshes, very conspicuous 

 about midsummer. The root of this plant is perennial, large, 

 fleshy, fusiform or branched. Several tufts of the leaves and 

 scapes are often produced from the same root. The leaves are 

 narrow-obovate, supported by long petioles, smooth, veinless, 

 obtuse, mucronated by the prolongation of the middle rib, level 

 and flat on the margin, in which respect they differ from S. 

 limonium, which is undulated. Scape round, a foot high, 

 smooth, furnished with a few scales, flexuous at top, giving off 

 numerous branches, which end in spikes of flowers ; the whole 

 forming a large panicle. The base of each branch and flower 



