-98 PENTAND. HEXAG. HEXANDRIA. 



Hab. Summits of the Highland mountains, common. Fl. July. 1/, 

 A small, glaucous, slightly hairy plant. Flower minute, yellow, some- 

 times without petals. Stam. 5 — 7. Pistils 5 — 3. 



(). HEXAG YNIA. 



76. DROSERA. 



1. Dr. rotiindifniia {round-leaved Siin-dnc), leaves radical oibi- 

 cular spreading upon rather a short footstalk, scape with a 

 simple raceme. Light/, p. 17^. E.B.t.SG7. 



Hab. I3ogs and moist heathy ground, frequent. FL July. 1/ . 

 Leaves, as in the other species, covered with pedunculated viscid 



glands, which retain insects. Petioles, too, in this species, hairy. 



Scape 2 — 5 inches high, glabrous. Flowers subsecund, small. 



2. Dr. longifolia {long-leaved Sun-dew), leaves radical obovate 

 tapering below into a long footstalk erect, scape with a simple 

 raceme. Lig/itf.p. \75. E.B.t.96S. 



Hab. Bogs and ^vet heaths. Marsh between Glasg. and Paisley, Hopk. 



Fl. July. 

 Scape like the last. Number of parts of the flower from 5 — 6. 

 '.i. Dr. angtica {greater Sun-deia), leaves radical oblongo-spathu- 



late tapering down into a long footstalk erect, scape with a 



simple raceme. E. B. t. 869. 

 Hab. Arran, very abundant, Mr. Murray. Kirkconnell moss, fi m. 



from Dumfries, Maugh. Fl. July. %. 

 Number of parts of the flower varying from 5 or 6, as is most usual, 



to 8. Larger than the last, and always retaining the characters above 



given in the leaves. It is much more deserving the name of longi- 

 folia than the last. 



77. MYOSURUS. 



1. M. tninimus {Mouse-tail). Light/, p. \76. E.B.t. 435. 



Hab. Corn-fields of a gravelly soil; FZ. May. O. 



Small plant, 2 — 4 inches high. Leaves radical, erect, linear-spathu- 

 late, fleshy. Scapes slender, bearing a single flower, small, greenish. 

 Receptacle of the numerous germens at length becoming an inch 

 and half or two inches long, and resembling a mouse's tail. 



VI. HEXANDRIA. 



1. MONOGYNIA. 



* Flowers complete, having a Cal. and Cor. 



13. Berberis. Ca/. of 6 leaves^ inferior. Cor. of 6 petals. Ber- 

 ry 2 -seeded. 



14. Pepj.is. Cal. 12-cIeft, campanulate ; segments alternately 

 smaller. Pe^ 6 (often wanting). Cap' superior, of 2 cells. 



