438 DHOSERA. [CLASS v. ORDER vi. 



numerous, all radical, ou slender footstalks, smooth, or scattered over 

 with more or less numerous hairs, especially at the base, obovale, 

 wedge-shaped or spathulate, greenish purple, thickly clothed on the 

 upper somewhat concave side with glandular pink hairs, those on and 

 near the margin much longer than the others, and generally curved. 

 Inflorescence a curved one sided raceme, of a few white flowers, each 

 on a short footstalk, from the base of an awl-shaped bractea, which in 

 a short time falls away. Calyx of four or five unequal short obtuse 

 or acute segments, smooth, pinkish green. Corolla white, of from five 

 to eight ovate oblong petals, and with about the same number of 

 stamens Styles also variable, from six to eight. Stigmas cloven. 

 Capsule ovate, obtuse, single celled. Seeds numerous, with a compact 

 rough coat, not chaffy, as in the last species. 



Habitat. Bogs and wet heathy ground ; frequent, but most 

 common in the Southern Counties. 



Perennial ; flowering in July and August 



3. D.angli'ca, Huds. (Fig. 522) Great Sun-dew. Leaves linear, 

 wedge-shaped ; scape erect, much longer than the leaves ; seeds with a 

 loose chaffy coat. 



English Botany, t. 869. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 123. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 152. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 38. D. longifolia, 

 Hayn. Schrad. Jour. 



Root small, fibrous. Scape round, smooth, mostly as long again as 

 the leaves, red, erect from the base. Leaves numerous, on long slender 

 smooth or hairy footstalks, especially at the base, linear, wedge-shaped, 

 pale purplish green, the upper surface thickly clothed with red glan- 

 dular hairs, those of the margin much longer than the disk, straight, or 

 curved, and of irregular lengths. Inflorescence a curved one sided 

 raceme, of a few white flowers, each on a short footstalk, from the base 

 of a narrow awl-shaped bractea, which shortly falls away. Calyx 

 smooth, of four or five ovate oblong acute segments, mostly of irregular 

 lengths, and often with the margin jagged. Corolla of from four to 

 eight oblong obtuse white petals. Stamens equal in number with the 

 petals. Styles varying from five to eight, with clavate stigmas, not 

 cleft, as in the last species. Capsule oblong, obtuse, of a single cell, 

 with numerous seeds, having a loose chaffy coat. 



Habitat. Bogs and wet heathy ground; less frequent than the 

 last. Both in Scotland and England, and occasionally found growing 

 together. 



Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 



This species was long thought only a variety of the former, but the 

 shape of the stigmas and the different characters of the seed sufficiently 

 point out the difference, independent of this being u much larger plant, 

 with longer, narrower, more linear leaves, and the scape of the former 

 being curved at the base, while this is erect and never curved. 



