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Ome ae form one of the smallest 
ss of plant families so far as our 
b native species are concerned ; but 
it is not on that account one 
= of the least interesting. The 
Sundews grow naturally in wet places on moors; 
especially where there is a bed of sphagnum- 
moss growing on a gentle slope with water percolat- 
ing slowly through it. There, with their simple roots 
among the sphagnum, deriving probably nothing but 
water from it, they occur in great numbers, though 
scarcely noticeable by the average rambler. The 
commonest form is the Round-leaved Sundew 
(Drosera rotundifolia), which is widely distributed 
throughout our land, and therefore to be obtained 
without great difficulty by most of my readers, if 
they will look for it in the places indicated. The 
leaves radiate from the rootstock and he almost flat 
upon the ground, or the surface of the sphagnum. 
The blade of the leaf is circular, and the leaf-stalk is 
equal in length to about three diameters of the blade. 
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