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D. Stalks from the root: leaves inversely egg-spear-shaped, longifolia* 

 Linn. Styles 6. Huds. 



Ft. dan. 1093-Dod. 474. 2-Ger. em. 1556. 2-Pet. 63. 11- 



Tbal.9.2~J. B. iii. 761. \-Barr. 251. 2-Lob. adv. 



454. 2.-? ark. 1052. 1. a-Ger. 1366. 2. 





Grows with the former. Is it really a distinct species ? Linn. 

 In this and the former the styles are 6, and the valves of the cap- 

 sule 3. On Brigstear Moss, near Kendal, growing to twice and 

 thrice the size they do about London. Ray's 3 additional spe- 



cies probably only varieties. Curt. hot. excurs.— Differs from 

 the preceding only in the shape of the leaves. Bat. arr. ed. \. 



Long-leaved Sundew. Bogs with the former. Linn. [In 

 Norfolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward. Knutsford Moor, Che- 

 shire. Mr. Aikin. Along with Dr. anglica. in Thorn Moor, 

 Yorksh. the latter is near twice as large as the former. Mr. 



Robson.J 



P. July, Aug. 



D. Stalks from the root : leaves oblong ; styles. 8. Huds. anglica* 





Dicks, h. s.~H. ox. XV. 4, row 1> figure the last-Pet. 63. i 2- 

 Park. 1052. 2. 



Has many things in common with the preceding species, but 

 is larger, and the capsules have 4- valves. Huds. 



Great Sundew. Boggy ground in the northern counties. De- 

 vonshire, Hants, and Norfolk. [In a marsh on a heath near 

 Holmes Chapel, Cheshire. Mr. Hunter.] P. July, Aug.* 



coagulated milk of the Syrians, called Leban, or Leven y at first prepared 



with some plant of this kind ? See Rush's nat. hist, of Aleppo. 



The name, Sundew, seems to be derived from a very striking circum- 

 stance in the appearance of these plants ; the leaves are fringed with hairs* 

 supporting small drops or globules of a pellucid liquor like dew, which 

 continue even in the hottest part of the day, and in the fullest exposure to 

 the sun. Perhaps the acrimony of the plant resides in this secreted 

 liquor. 



* Few persons can have observed the Drosera in its native bogs, 

 without seeing some of the leaves doubled up; but the cause of this, I 

 believe, was first ascertained in this kingdom, by the attention and inge- 

 nuity of my friend, Mr. Whately, now a surgeon in London. In the 

 month of August, 1780, that gentleman being upon a visit in Derbyshire, 

 and gathering some specimens of the Drosera, examined some of these 

 folded leaves, and finding a dead insect in each, was prompted to irritate 

 the upper surface of other leaves, by touching tfum with a pin. The 

 *ftect was as he expected, a sudden contraction of the leaf upon the pin. 

 He communicated this curious fact to me ; and though the experiment 

 has since failed in my hands, I am satisfied he saw what he described. His 

 friend, Mr. Gardom, a Derbyshire botanist, who accompanied him at the 

 moment of this discovery, has since written me the following account : 



" In August, 1780, examining the Drosera in company with Mr. 

 Whately, on his inspecting some of the contracted leaves, we observed a 



* small 



