58 SWISS FLOWERS. 



can hardly fail to attract attention, growing, as it does, 

 side by side with one of the prettiest of our British wild 

 flowers, the Grass of Parnassus, to which it bears a near 

 relationship. 



The white blossom, expanding only in sunshine, is small, 

 and grows on a stem, which, at first rolled back, gradually 

 opens, and ends in a one-sided few-flowered raceme, with 

 from five to eight petals and stamens and three or four 

 divided styles. It is the leaves that are the curious part 

 of the plant. They are green in the middle, with a pinkish 

 border, are round in shape, and spread on long stalks all 

 round the root. They are covered on the top with red 

 hairs, which have a clammy drop at the tip — whence the 

 name, Sundew. Very common in the situations above 

 mentioned. 



D. longifolia, which does not differ much from the 

 Round-leaved Sundew, D. rotundifolia (Fig. 39), is distin- 

 guished from it by its more erect and longer leaves, which 

 taper into the foot-stalk. It is much less common. Crevin 

 near Geneva, Arenthon near Bonneville. 



Those with still narrower leaves, and much larger in 

 growth, have had the name Anglica given to them. Not 

 unfrequent. Einsielden, Rheineck. 



