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petals lasting but cue day after the flower opens ; others small, 

 clustered in the axils of the leaves, and apetalous. Leaves lance- 

 olate, downy beneath. Sandy places. 



a. HUDSO'NIA, L. HUDSONIA. 



H. tomento'sa, Nutt. (DowNY H. ) Hoary. Leaves oval or 

 narrowly oblong, short, close -pressed, or imbricated. Flowers 

 small, yellow, very numerous. A little heath-like shrub, on the 

 shores of the Great Lakes, and the River St. Lawrence. 



3. LECH'EA, L. PlNWEED. 



L. minor, Lam. (SMALLER P.) Flowers inconspicuous, purp- 

 lish, loosely racemose, on distinct pedicels. Stem slender, rough 

 with appressed scattereil hairs. Leaves scattered, linear. Pods 

 the size of a pin's head. Dry soil. 



ORDER XIV. DROSEBA'CE^I. (SUNDEW FAMILY.) 



Low glandular- hairy marsh herbs, with circinate tufted radical 

 leaves, and regular hypogynous flowers borne on a naked scape. 

 Sepals, petals, and stamens, 5 each ; anthers turned outwards. 

 Styles 3-5, deeply 2-parted. Pod 1 -celled, 3-valved. The only 

 genus with us is 



DROS'ERA, L. SUNDEW. 



1. D. rotundifolia, L. (ROUND-LEAVED SUNDEW.) Flowers 

 small, white, in a 1 -sided raceme. Leaves orbicular, abruptly 

 narrowed into the hairy petiole, clothed with reddish glandular 

 hairs. Bogs. 



2. D. longifolia, L. (LONGER-LEAVED S.) has oblong-spathu- 

 late leaves gradually narrowed into erect naked petioles. Bogs : 

 not common. 



ORDER XY. HYPEBICA'CE^S. (Si. JOHN'S WORT F.) 



Herbs or shrubs, with opposite entire dotted leaves, and no 

 stipules. Flowers regular, hypogynous, mostly yellow. Sepals 

 5, persistent. Petals o, deciduous. Stamens mostly numerous, 

 and usually in 3 or more clusters. Stamens 3-5, sometimes 

 united. Pod 1-5-celled. Seeds numerous. 



