. (SUNDEW FAMILY.) 10 



4. S. Drummondii, Croom. Leaves elongated, erect, trumpet-shaped, 

 narrowly winged; hood erect, rounded, short-pointed, hairy within, and like 

 the upper portion of the tube white, variegated with reticulated purple, veins. 

 Pine barren swamps, Florida, to the middle districts of Georgia, and west- 

 ward. April. (S. uudulata, Decaisne.) Leaves 2 long. Scapes longer than 

 the leaves. Flowers 3' wide. 



* * Flowers yellow. 



5. S. flava, L. (TRUMPET-LEAF. WATCHES.) Leaves large, erect, 

 trumpet-shaped, narrowly winged ; hood yellow, erect, orbicular, slender- 

 pointed, tomentose within, reddish at the base, or reticulated with purple 

 veins. Low pine barrens, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. April 

 -May. Leaves yellowish, 2 long. Hood 3' -4' wide. Scapes as long 

 as the leaves. Flowers 4' - 5' wide. 



6. S. variolaris, Michx. (SPOTTED TRUMPET-LEAF.) Leaves erect, 

 trumpet-shaped, broadly winged, spotted with white near the yellowish summit ; 

 hood ovate, concave, arching over the orifice of the tube, hairy and reticulated 

 with purple veins within. Low pine barrens, Florida to Xorth Carolina, and 

 westward. May. Leaves 6' - 12' long, longer than the scapes. Flowers 2' 

 wide. 



ORDER 8. DROSERACE^E. (SUNDEW FAMILY.) 



Low marsh herbs, with tufted radical leaves, and regular hypogy- 

 nous white or purplish flowers, borne on a naked scape. Sepals 5, 

 persistent. Petals 5, withering. Stamens 5-15, distinct: anthers 

 extrorse. Ovary 1-celled, many-ovuled, with 3-5 parietal placentae. 

 Styles separate or united. Capsule 3-5-valved. Seeds anatropous. 

 Embryo minute at the base of fleshy albumen. 



1. DROSERA, L. SUNDEW. 



Stamens 5. Styles 3-5, deeply 2- parted; the divisions 2 - many-lobed. 

 Capsule 3-valved, many-seeded. Leaves dewy with glandular hairs, circinate 

 in vernation. Scape often forking. Flowers racemose, secuncl, scorpioid. 



V D. filiformis, Raf. Rootstock thick, creeping; leaves erect, filiform, 

 elongated, smooth at the base ; scape smooth, many-flowered ; flowers large, 

 bright purple ; calyx hairy ; seeds oblong, dotted. Low pine barrens, in 

 the lower districts. April. 2J. Scapes 1- 11 high. Flowers 1' or more 

 wide. 



2. D. longifolia, L. Rootstock long and slender ; leaves linear-spatu- 

 late, gradually narrowed into the long and smooth petiole, the upper ones 

 erect; scape smooth, declined at the base, 8 - 1 2-rlowered ; calvx obovate ; 

 seeds oblong. Sandy swamps, oftener in water. Rare. May -June. ^ 

 Scapes 4 / -6 / high. Flowers small, white. 



3. D. capillaris, Poir. Rootstock short or none ; leaves spatulate, nar- 

 rowed into the long and smoothish petiole; scape slender, smooth, erect, 



