332 PENTANDRIA. HEXAGYNIA. drosera^ 



2 4 inches, and then appearing caulescent. Leaves obovate or 



spathulate, on very long naked petioles, with scarious many- 

 cleft stipules at the base. Scafie radical, bent down, and then 

 ascending, a little longer than the leaves, smooth. Racemes 

 simple, secund, 5— 7-flowcred. Pedicels about one line long„ 

 Styles sometimes 7. Cafisule ovate. Seeds ovate, obtuse. 

 Hab. In bog-meadows, and in sandy swamps, July— August. 

 Very common in the pine barrens of New-Jersey, and in 

 swamps on the sea-coast of Long-Island. 



This species varies much in size, breadth and length of tl^e 

 leavfs, Sec. but is easily distinguished by its declined scapCj 

 broader segments of the calyx, and capillary stipules. It much 

 resembles the European plant, but may be distinct. 



2. D.Jiliformis Raf,: leaves filiform, very long, glandu- 

 lous the whole length ; scape simple or bifid. R af. in Med. 

 Rep, il. p. 360. Ejusd, in Dtsx, Journ. de Bot. I. p. 227. 

 Pursh PL l. p,2l]. J^utt. Gen. I p. U2, Roem.ir 

 Schult. VI. p. 763. D. tenaifolia Will d. Enum. Hort. 

 Berol. p. 340. Muhl. Cat. p. 33. R. k S. 1. c. 



Root perennial. Leaves filiform, 6 — 10 inches long, covered all 

 over, except on the under surface, with brown glandular fila- 

 ments, which, as in the rest of the genus, frequently entangle 

 small insects, at first spirally involute, but at lengtn straight, 

 and when old, tortuous. Sti/iules a lanuginous web. Sca/ie 

 smooth, terete, longer tlian t'le leaves, subcompound. Flowers 

 racemose, secund, on glandular pedicels about 2 lines long; 

 bracts subulate. Calyx glandular-pubescent ; segments un- 

 equal, oblong, obtuse. Petals large, obovate, pale purple, with 

 darker veins. Stamens 5, shorter than the petals ; anthers 

 large, oblong, 2-lulbed, yellow. Styles 6 ; stigmas incraa- 

 saied upwards. Cajisiile oblong. Seeds numerous, ovate, 

 acute, black, punctate, 

 Hab. In sandy swamps on the banks of small creeks in the 

 pine barrens of New-Jersey, particularly abundant about Qua- 

 ker Bridge and Atsion. Near Tuckerton, N. J. Pursb.. 

 In Sussex county, Delaware. Rafinesgue. Near Ply- 

 inoutl), Massachusetts. Bige I ovf. August — September. 



This species was first discovered by Mr. R afine s que. 

 and described by him as early as the year 1808, in the work 

 above quoted. It is a remarkable plant, resembling D. lusi- 

 tanica^ which has 10 stamens, and the flowers subumbellate 



