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The habitat is spongy bogs and moors, heaths, 

 etc. The Sundew is found in the wet heath associa- 

 tion on sandy soils, in the siliceous grassland asso- 

 ciation, in the fen association, in estuarine moors, on 

 sphagnum moors on lowland moors, in the beak 

 sedge association, in the heather moor association on 

 the upland moors of the Pennines. 



The Sundew has the rosette habit with a creeping 

 rhizome, the root-stock being short and slender. 

 The stem is very short. There are autumnal stoles 

 with bulbils. The leaves are horizontal, on long 

 stalks broadly obovate or nearly round (hence rotun- 

 difolia), with long, sticky tentacles above, glandular 

 at the tip. The margin is glandular and the leaf is 

 hairless above. The leaf-stalk is hairy, swollen at 

 the base, which is sheathing. 



The flowers are white, in series, borne on slender 

 scapes with awl-like bracts, and are erect and smooth, 

 the upper part forming a once forked, one-sided 

 raceme, turned back at first, then straight. The 

 ultimate flower-stalks are bractless. The parts of 

 the flowers are in sixes. The petals exceed the 

 sepals, and open in the sun. The anthers are white. 

 The styles are divided into two branches and bent 

 inwards. The stigmas are white, club-shaped, undi- 

 vided. The capsule is acute, longer than the sepals. 

 The seeds are long, spindle-shaped, pointed both 

 ends, the testa longer than the small, ovoid albumen, 

 and loose, chaffy, and netted. 



The Sundew flowers in July and August, and is a 



