154 THE STTNDEW FAMILY. 



•with vegetable diamonds. Flower-stalk from the bosom of the leaves, 

 three to six inches high, and bearing an incurved, and sometimes 

 branched raceme of minute Avhite blossoms, which are raised at inter- 

 vals of a day or two, one by one, to the apex of the arch, where they 

 open, provided the sun shines, and not else. Corolla regular and 

 pentamerous ; stamens and pistils five to eight. The native species 

 are the only members of the family ever seen alive in this country, 

 except rarely, in very choice green-houses, the Venus, Fly-trap or 

 Dioncca musclpula. In properties they are acid and acrid. 



Three species are indigenous, and the whole of them found near 

 Manchester. 



1. Leaves circular, lying flat on the ground, in a rosette two or 1 Round-leaved 



three inches in diameter. (Fig. 110.) J Sundew. 



2. Leaves narrow, five or six times as long as broad, widening \ _, 



from the base upwards, and erect. Seeds ■with a loose, r StiNnv 

 chafiycoat. (Fig. 111.) i ^' 



3. Leaves oblong, three or four times as long as broad, and erect.) o,..^, o,,™ 



o I -ii 1 i. 1, «• ^ ^ Small Sundew. 



Seeds with a rough, not chaify, coat j 



HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 

 1. RoTTND-LEAYED SuNDEW — [Droscra rotundifoUa.) 

 On all the moors and mosses about Manchester, sitting chiefly on 

 moist gi*een cvishions of Sjyhagnmn, in little hollows among the heather, 

 but sometimes more exposed, and then visible at a long distance 

 through its redness. Plentiful and easily procurable upon Lindow 

 Common, Hale Moss, and Barton Moss. Fl. July, August. 



Curtis, iv. 601; E. B. xiii. 807 (mislettered D. longifolia); Baxter, iii. 201 

 (drawn too large). 



2. Great English Sundew — [Diosera Amjlica.) 

 In similar situations ; less frequent than the round-leaved sundew, 

 but commoner than the next. Exceedingly fine and abundant on 

 Carrington Moss, and easily procurable. Fl. July, August. 



K. IS. xiii. HOO. 



3. Small Sundew — [Drosera longifolia.) 

 In similar situations, but seldonier. Carrinu,ton Moss, Chat Moss, 

 Barton Moss. Fl. July, August. 



Curtis, jv. Wi ; K. H. xiii. Ktlh c misiettcieil /'. mtintilt/nlia i 



