3G DROSERACE^E. (SUNDEW FAMILY.) 



4. H. Canadense, Michx. Stems erect, at first nearly simple, downy or 

 smooth : leaves lanceolate, downy, or nearly smooth above ; Sowers axillary, 

 the perfect ones large, solitary, the later apetalous ones clustered or sometimes 

 wanting. (II. rosmarinifoliurn* JPh. 1 H. ramuliflprom, 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-cclled, 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. Bough with appresscd scattered hairs ; the young 

 branches and calyx more or less hoary; stems paniculately branched above; 

 leave- scattered, linear; flowers loosely racemose, on distinct, often appressed 

 pedicels. (L. raccmulosa and L. tcnuifolia, Michx.) — Dry Bandy 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 -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 (lowers at the summit of the branched. 



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

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

 Rock, North Carolina. 



Obdbb 1G. DROSERACEiE. (Sundew Family.) 

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



and regular hvpogynous white Ot purplish flowers borne on a naked scape. 



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

 thers estrone. Ovary 1-celled, many-ovuled, with 8 or 5 parietal pla- 

 centas. Styles separate ot united. Capsule loculicidally ;> 5-valved. 

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



1. DROSERA, L. Suwdbw. 

 Stamens 5. Btylei ■'t-. r >, deeply 2-parted ; the divisions 2-manv4obed Cap- 

 snle 8-valved, many-seeded. — Leaves dewy with glanduhu hairs. Scape often 

 forking. Flowers racemose, second. 



