36 DKOSERACE.E. (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. (II. rosmarinifolium, PA. ? II. ramuliflorum, Michx.) — Dry sterile 

 soil, Florida and northward. April. — Stems 1"^ hi{,'h. Perfect flowers an 

 inch wide. 



2. LECHEA, L. 



Petals 3, persistent, not lonj^er than tlie sepals. Stamens 3-12. Stigmns 3, 

 sessile, plumose. Capsule globose, 3-valved, incompletely 3-cellcd, 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 2P 

 high, branching toward the summit. Capsules as large as a pin's head. 



2. L. minor, Lam. Rough with apprcssed scattered hairs ; the young 

 branches and calyx more or less hoary ; stems paniculatcly branched al)ove ; 

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

 pedicels. (L. racemulosa and L. tcnuifolia, Michx.) — D17 sandy soil, common. 

 July and August. — Stems i°-2° high. Capsules larger than in Jso. 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-valvcd, with 2-6 erect seeds at- 

 ta(;hed near their base. Embno 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. 



OuuKR 10. DROSERACEiE. (Sundew Family.) 



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

 and regular hypogynous white or purplish flowers, borne on a naktnl scape. 

 Sepals ."}, persistent. Petals 5, withering. Stamens 5 - If), distinct: an- 

 thers e.xtrorsc. Ovary l-<-elled, many-ovuled, with .3 or r> ])anetal pla- 

 centic. Styles separate or united. Capsule hMuIicidally 3-5-valved. 

 Seeds anatfoj)ous. Kmbryo minute at the base of fleshy albumen. 



1. DROSERA, L. Si npkw. 

 Stamens .•). Styles 3-.^, deeply 2 -parted ; the divisions 2-mnny-lobcd. Cnp- 

 snlc 3-valvcd, many-Bccdcd. — Leaves dewy with glandular hairs. Scape often 

 forking. Flowers racemose, sccund. 



