SPECIES AND VARIETIES. ^37 



Pride or St. Patrick's Cabbage. — Mountains of south-western 

 Ireland^ and Yorkshire. Fl. June. 



S. Geum : resembling the last^ but the leaves are orbicular, 

 usually notched or cordate at the base, with long hairy stalks, 

 the leaves also having a few scattered hairs on both surfaces. 

 — West of Ireland. Fl. June. 



[97) Drosera. Sundew. 



D. rotundifolia : leaves on long stalks, nearly orbicular, 

 covered on the upper surface with long, red, viscid hairs, each 

 bearing a small gland at the top ; flower-stems slender, erect, 

 glabrous, 2-6 inches high, the upper portion, consisting of a 

 simple or once-forked unilateral raceme, rolled back when 

 young, but straightening as the flowers expand ; petals white, 

 expanding in sunshine. — Bogs, and wet heathy ground. Fl. 

 July, August. 



D. longifolia : resembling the last, but the leaves much 

 more erect, not half so broad as long, and gradually tapering 

 into the footstalk ; flowering stem shorter and stouter. — Bogs. 

 Fl. July, August. 



(98) Lythrum. Loosestrife. 



L. Salicaria : stems erect, 2-4 feet high, slightly branched, 

 glabrous or softly downy ; leaves opposite, or in threes, sessile, 

 clasping the stem, lanceolate, entire; flowers reddish-purple 

 or pink, in rather dense whorls, forming handsome terminal 

 spikes, more or less leafy at the base, the upper floral leaves 

 reduced to bracts. — Wet ditches and marshy places. Fl. July, 

 August. 



(99) Peplis. Water Purslane. 

 P. Portula : annual ; stems slightly branched, creeping and 



