36 DROSEKACE^E. (SUNDEW FAMILY.) 



4. H. Canadense, Michx. Stems erect, at first nearly simple, downy or 

 smooth ; leaves lanceolate, downy, or nearly smooth above ; flowers axillary, 

 the perfect ones large, solitary, the later apetalous ones clustered or sometimes 

 wanting. (H. rosmarinifolium, Ph. ? H. ramuliflorum, Michx.) Dry sterile 

 soil, Florida and northward. April. Stems 1 high. Perfect flowers an 

 inch wide. 



2. LECHEA, L. 



Petals 3, persistent, not longer than the sepals. Stamens 3 - 12. Stigmas .3, 

 sessile, plumose. Capsule globose, 3-valved, incompletely 3-celled, 6-seeded. 

 Embryo slightly curved. Perennial herbs, with small greenish flowers in 

 racemes or panicles. 



1. L. major, Michx. Villous; leaves alternate, opposite, or whorled, el-, 

 liptical, those on the prostrate radical branches roundish ; flowers on short pedi- 

 cels, densely crowded in short simple or compound axillary racemes. (L. villosa, 

 EH.) Dry sterile soil, Florida and northward. July and August. Stem 2 

 high, brandling toward the summit. Capsules as large as a pin's head. 



2. L. minor, Lam. Rough with appressed scattered hairs ; the young 

 branches and calyx more or less hoary ; stems paniculately branched above ; 

 leaves scattered, linear ; flowers loosely racemose, on distinct, often appressed 

 pedicels. (L. racemulosa and L. tenuifolia, Michx.) Dry sandy soil, common. 

 July and August. Stems i - 2 high. Capsules larger than in No. 1 . Rad- 

 ical branches often wanting. 



3. HUDSONIA, L. 



"Petals 5, larger than the sepals, fugacious. Stamens 9 - 30. Style filiform. 

 Stigma minute. Capsule oblong, 1 -celled, 3-valved, with 2-6 erect seeds at- 

 tached near their base. Embryo coiled. Low tufted shrubs, with minute hoary, 

 subulate, imbricated leaves, and yellow flowers at the summit of the branches. 



1. H. montana, Nutt. Stems 2' -4' high; leaves loosely imbricated; 

 pedicels longer than the flowers ; calyx campanulate; sepals acuminate. Table 

 Rock, North Carolina. 



ORDER 16. DROSERACE^E. (SUNDEW FAMILY.) 



Low glandular-hairy marsh herbs, with circinate tufted radical leaves, 

 and regular hypogynous white or purplish flowers, borne on a naked scape. 

 Sepals 5, persistent. Petals 5, withering. Stamens 5- 15, distinct : an- 

 thers extrorse. Ovary 1-celled, many-ovuled, with 3 or 5 parietal pla- 

 centae. Styles separate or united. Capsule loculicidally 3-5-valved. 

 Seeds anatropous. Embryo minute at the base of fleshy albumen. 



1. DBOSEBA, L. SUNDEW. 



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

 sule 3-valved, many-seeded. Leaves dewy with glandular hairs. Scape often 

 forking. Flowers racemose, secund. 



