36 DROSERACEJE. (SUNDEW FAMILY.) 
4. H. Canadense, Michx. Stems erect, at first nearly simple, downy or 
smooth ; leaves lanceolate, downy, or nearly smooth above; flowers axillary, 
' the perfect ones large, solitary, the later apetalous ones clustered or sometimes 
wanting. (H. rosmarinifolium, PA. ? H.ramuliflorum, Michx.) — Dry sterile 
soil, Florida and northward. April.— Stems 19 high. Perfect flowers an 
inch wide. 
2. LECHEA, L. 
Petals 3, persistent, not longer than the sepals. Stamens 3-12. Stigmas 3, 
sessile, plumose. Capsule globose, 3-valved, incompletely 3-celled, 6-seeded. 
Embryo slightly curved. — Perennial herbs, with small greenish flowers in 
racemes or panicles. 
1. L. major, Michx. Villous; leaves alternate, opposite, or whorled, el- 
liptical, those on the prostrate radical branches roundish ; flowers on short pedi- 
cels, densely crowded in short simple or compound axillary racemes. (L. villosa, 
Ell.) — Dry sterile soil, Florida and northward. July and August. — Stem 2° 
high, branching toward the summit. Capsules as large as a pin's head. 
2. L. minor, Lam. Rough with appressed scattered hairs; the young 
branches and calyx more or less hoary ; stems paniculately branched above; 
leaves scattered, linear ; flowers loosely racemose, on distinct, often appressed 
pedicels. (L. racemulosa and L. tenuifolia, Michz.) — Dry sandy soil, common. 
July and August.— Stems 19-29 high. Capsules larger than in No.1. Rad- 
ical branches often wanting. 
3. HUDSONIA, L. 
Petals 5, larger than the sepals, fugacious. Stamens 9-30. Style filiform. 
Stigma minute. Capsule oblong, 1-celled, 3-valved, with 2-6 erect seeds at- 
tached near their base, Embryo coiled. — Low tufted shrubs, with minute hoary, 
subulate, imbricated leaves, and yellow flowers at the summit of the branches. 
1. H. montana, Nutt. Stems 9/- 4! high; leaves loosely imbricated ; 
pedicels longer than the flowers ; calyx campanulate; sepals acuminate. — Table 
Rock, North Carolina, 
Orver 16. DROSERACEJE. (Sunpew Faurrr.) 
Low glandular-hairy marsh herbs, with cireinate tufted radical leaves, 
and regular hypogynous white or purplish flowers, borne on a naked scape. 
Sepals 5, persistent. Petals 5, withering. Stamens 5— 15, distinct : an- 
thers extrorse. Ovary 1-celled, many-ovuled, with 3 or 5 parietal pla- 
centz. Styles separate or united. Capsule loculicidally 3— 5-valved. 
Seeds anatropous. - Embryo minute at the base of fleshy albumen. 
