SUNDEW FAMILY 87 



CAPER FAMILY (Capparidaceae) 



Herbaceous. Leaves alternate, 3-foliate. Petals 4, white. 

 Stamens 9 or more. Fruit a capsule. 



Catchfly (Genus Aldenella (Polanisia) 



Mustard-like in its flowers and seedpods is this catchfly, 

 whose stems and leaves are slightly sticky. Like the 

 warea, this plant prolongs its season of bloom into the 

 winter months, but, unlike it, the flowers are scattered 

 along the leafy flowering-stems, and the leaves are formed 

 of thread-like leaflets. Although this catchfly is found iu 

 dry pinelands, it seems to thrive best when as a weed 

 it takes possession of neglected fields. 



Aldenella tenuifolia. Flowers white, small, in loosely- 

 flowered terminal racemes 2-10 in. long. Sepals 4, petals 4, 

 unequal in size. Stamens 9-12. Seedpods slender, 2 in. long. 

 Plants 1-3 ft. tall, branched. Leaves of 3 very narrow leaf- 

 lets. Sandy soil. Blooming from late winter to fall. Fla. 

 and Ga. 



SUNDEW FAMILY (Droseraceae) 



Small plants with basal rosettes of reddish, glandular leaves. 

 Flowers small, white or pink. Fruit a capsule. 



Sundew (Genus Drosera) 



The extraordinary habits of insectiverous plants make 

 them of especial interest to the -student of flowers. Of 

 the insect-devouring plants in Florida the little sundews 

 are the most abundant, spreading their rosettes of glisten- 

 ing leaves by thousands in marshes, low pinelands, and wet 

 sands, and catching myriads of insects, which they de- 

 vour in their own peculiar way. 



