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or in Scotland. But how came it here ? And 

 more, how has it spread, not only over the whole of 

 northern Europe, Canada, and the United States, 

 but even as far south as Brazil?" 



Practically, the Sundews belong to the southern 

 rather than the northern hemispheres, and they 

 appear to have been driven thence across the line to 

 our latitudes, perhaps during the great Southern 

 Glacial Period which drove many other southern plants 

 to northerly climates. " On the Organ mountains 

 of Brazil, both Arctic and Antarctic plants are found 

 commingled in strange brotherhood, eloquently testi- 

 fying to the alternate glaciation of the northern and 

 southern hemispheres, which has thus unexpectedly 

 brought them into company." No fewer than forty- 

 one species of Sundew have been found in Australia 

 alone. Bunbury thus describes the South African 

 kinds : "Of the curious and interesting genus D^'osera, 

 there are seven species found near Cape Town, all 

 as remarkable as those of Europe for their delicate 

 clothing of gland -tipped hairs, giving them that 

 peculiar dewy appearance from whence they have 

 the names of Drosera and Sundew. Drosera 

 capensis, which grows in wet and boggy spots on 

 the sides of Table Mountain, is similar in form and 

 in the arrangement of its flowers to our anglica, but 

 much larger in all its parts, and with beautiful bright 

 purple flowers. The most peculiar species, and at 

 the same time the most common about Cape Town, 



