THE SUNDEW FAMILT, 



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tree of moderate size, with noble pinnate leaves, downy stalks, and a 

 large dense panicle of crimson flowers, appearing in August. This is 

 the Rhus typhina, or Stag's-horn Sumach. The other, or Venus 

 Sumach [Rhus Cotinus), is a shrub, with obovate, entire, long-stalked 

 leaves, and loose panicles of greenish-yellow blossoms. The flowers 

 of both species are unisexual. 



XXXI.— THE SUNDEW FAMILY. Droserdcece. 



Very curious and elegant little plants, growing upon wet moors in 

 almost every part of the world, and abundantly in Britain. Leaves 

 all radical, in the native species fringed and clothed upon the upper 



Fig. 111. 

 Leaf of Great English Sundew. 

 Fig. 110. 

 Eound-leaved Sundew (leaves iii part lefL plain). 



surface with delicate hairs resembling pink eye-lashes, only that 

 instead of tapering to a point they are tipped with oval glands, from 

 which, in summer, exude drops of limpid gum, decking the plant 



