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4. S. Drummondii, Croom. Leaves elongated, erect, trumpet-shaped, 

 narrowly winged; hood erect, rounded, short-pointed, hairy within, and like 

 the upper portion of tlie tube white, variegated with reticulated purple veins. 

 — Pine barren swamps, Florida, to the middle districts of Georgia, and west- 

 ward. April. (S. undulata, Decaisne.) — Leaves 2° long. Scapes longer than 

 the leaves. Flowers 3' wide. 



* * Flowers yellow. 



5. S. flava, L. (Trumpet-leaf. Watches.) Leaves large, erect, 

 trumpet-sliaped, narrowly winged ; hood yellow, erect, orbicular, slender- 

 pointed, tomentose within, reddish at the base, or reticulated with purple 

 veins. — Low pine barrens, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. April 

 -May. — Leaves yellowish, 2° long. Hood 3' -4' wide. Scapes as long 

 as the leiives. Flowers 4' - 5' wide. 



6. S. variolaris, Michx. (Spotted Trumpet-leaf.) Leaves erect, 

 trumpet-shaped, broadly winged, spotted with white near the yellowish summit ; 

 hood ovate, concave, arching over the orifice of the tube, hairy and reticulated 

 with purple veins within. — Low pine barrens, Florida to North Carolina, and 

 westward. May. — Leaves 6'- 12' long, longer than the scapes. Flowers 2' 

 wide. 



Order 8. DROSEKACE^:. (Sundew Family.) 



Low marsh herbs, with tufted radical leaves, and regular hypogy- 

 nous white or purplish flowers, borne on a naked scape. Sepals 5, 

 persistent. Petals 5, withering. Stamens 5-L5, distinct: anthers 

 extrorse. Ovary 1-celled, many-ovuled, with 3-5 parietal placentae. 

 Styles separate or united. Capsule 3-5-vaIved. 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 - manv-lobed. 

 Capsule 3-valved, many-seeded. — Leaves dewy with glandular hairs, circinate 

 in vernation. Scape often forking. Flowers racemose, secund, scorpioid. 



1. D. filiformis, Raf. Rootstock thick, creeping; leaves erect, filiform, 

 elongated, smooth at the base ; scape .smooth, many-flowered ; flowers large, 

 briglit purple; calyx hairy; seeds oblong, dotted. — Low pine barrens, in 

 the lower districts. April. % — Scapes 1°-H° high. Flowers 1' or more 

 wide. 



2. D. longifolia, L. Rootstock long and slender ; leaves linear-spatu- 

 late, gradually narrowed into the long and smooth petiole, the upper ones 

 erect; scape smooth, declined at the base, 8- 12-flowered ; calyx obovate ; 

 seeds oblong. — Sandy swamps, oftener in water. Rare. May - June. 2/ — 

 Scapes 4' -6' high. Flowers small, white. 



3. D. capillaris, Poir. Rootstock short or none ; leaves spatulate, nar- 

 rowed into the long and smoothish petiole; scape slender, smooth, erect. 



