36 DROSERACEiE. (SUNDEAV 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, P/i. ? H. ramuliflorum, Michx.) — Dry sterile 

 soil, Florida and northward. April. — Stems 1'^ 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-sceded. 

 Embryo slightly curved. — Perennial herbs, with small greenish flowers in 

 racemes or panLcles. 



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 paniculatcly branched above ; 

 leaves scattered, linear ; flowers loosely racemose, on distinct, often appressed 

 pedicels. (L. racemulosa and L. tenuifolia, Michx.) — Dry sandy soil, common. 

 July and August. — Stems ^°-2° 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-cclled, 3-valved, with 2-6 erect seeds at- 

 tached near their base. EmbiTO coiled. — Low tufted shrubs, with minute hoary, 

 subulate, imbricated leaves, and yellow flowers at the summit of the branches. 



1. H. montana, Nutt. Stems 2'- 4' high; leaves loosely imbricated; 

 pedicels longer than the flowers ; calyx campanulate; sepals acuminate. — Table 

 Rock, North Carolina. 



Order 16. DROSERACEiE. (Sundew Family.) 



Low glandular-hairy marsh herbs, with circinate tufted radical leaves, 

 and regular hypogynous whfte or pui-plish flowers, borne on a naked seape. 

 Sepals 5, persistent. Petals 5, withering. Stamens 5 - 15, distinct: an- 

 thers extrorse. Ovary 1 -celled, many-ovuled, with 3 or 5 parietal pla- 

 centa;. Styles separate or united. Capsule loculicidally 3 - 5-valvcd. 

 Seeds anatropous. Embryo minute at the base of fleshy albumen. 



1. DROSERA, L. Sundew. 

 Stamens .5. Styles 3-5, deeply 2-parted ; the divisions 2 - many-lobed. Cap- 

 sule 3-valved, many-seeded. — Leaves dewy with glandular hairs. Scape often 

 forking. Flowers racemose, secund. 



