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ORDER VI. 

 HEXAGYNIA. 



224. DROSERA. 

 Calyx deeply 5-cleft, persistent. Petals 5. An- 

 thers adnate. Styles 6. Capsule superior, 3 -celled, 

 3 — 5-valved, manv -seeded. Gen. pi. 531. Nutt. 

 Gen. I. p. 141. Juss. p. 245. Lam. III. t. CCXX. 

 Roem. £sr Schult. Gen. 1263. Nat. Ord. Cappa- 

 RiDES Ju s s. Droserace/E De C and. Leaves 

 radical, glandalous. Flowers on scapes. Sun-dew. 



1. D. rotundifolia L. : leaves suborbicular, dilated ; pe- 

 tiole elongated, hairy above ; racemes mostly simple, erect. 

 Willd. Spec. I. p. 1345. Smith Fl. Brit. I. p. 346. Eng. 

 Bo/, t. 867. Mich, FLl.p. ISG. P ur s h FL I. p,2]0. 

 B i g. Bost. p. 75. Elliott Sk. I. p. 375. Walt. Car, 

 p. 117. Roem, ^ Schult. VI. p. IGO. 



Root perennial. Leaves all rarlical, spreading circularly on the 

 ground, covered with brownish filaments, each with a drop of 

 viscid fluid at the extremity. Scafie 4 — 8 inches long, erect, 

 smooth, slender, at first involute, bearing from 5 — 10 very 

 small secund flowers in a simple, or rarely in a bifid, raceme. 

 Pedicels about a line long. Segments of the calyx linear-ob- 

 long, obtuse, reddish. Petals white, oblong, obtuse, marces- 

 cent. Stamens 5 ; anthers 2-lobed, turned outwards ; fiollen 

 granular. Styles 5 — 6, very short ; stigmas simple. Cafisule 

 oblong, longer than the calyx. Seeds very numerous, attenuate 

 at each extremity. 



Hab. In wet boggy grounds, particularly where Sphagnum 

 abounds ; common. July — August. 



2. D. longifolia L. : leaves crenate-obovate, tapering be- 

 low into a long footstalk, erect-spreading; scape declined at 

 the base; stipules many-cleft, capillaceous ; segments of the 

 calyx ovate-oblong, obtuse. Willd. Spec. I. p. 1544. 

 Smith Fl. Brit. 1. p. 347. Eng. Bot. t. 868. M i c h. FL 

 I. p. 186. Pursh Fl.l.p.lW. Elliot t Sk.Lp.37G. 

 J^utt. Gen. I. p. 141. Roem. ^ Schult. VI. p. 761, 

 D. americana M uhl. Cat. p. 33. Willd, Enum. Hurt. 

 Berol. p-. 340. R. k S. 1. c. p. 765. D.foliosa Elliott Sk. 

 1. c. p. 376. D. angustifolia Gold, in Edm. Phil, Jour. 

 VI. p. 323.? 



Root perennial. Caudex when overflowed often elongated 



