DROSERACE^E. I. DROSERA. 



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and margins clothed with glandular hairs, under surface glabrous ; 

 petioles villous ; scapes ascending at the base, 2-3-flowered ; 

 segments of calyx linear, acute, covered with glandular down. 

 If. . S. Native of Brazil in argillaceous bogs near the city of 

 Joao-del-Rey in the province of Minas Geraes. Flowers rose- 

 coloured, secund. 



Small-leaved Sun-dew. Fl. ? PI. -| foot. 



22 D. ROTUNDIFO'LIA (Lin. spec. 402.) leaves orbicular, foot- 

 stalks hairy, longer than the limb ; scapes erect, 4-5-times higher 

 than the leaves ; seeds arillate. 1. H. Native in many parts 

 of Europe, plentiful in Britain in mossy turfy bogs, generally 

 among sphagnum. The whole disk of the leaf, but especially 

 its margin, is beset with red inflexed hairs, discharging from their 

 ends a drop of viscid acrid fluid. These hairs have been thought 

 irritable, so as to contract when touched, imprisoning insects, 

 somewhat in the manner of the American Dionce'a muscipula. 

 Flowers white. Drev. et Hayne, pi. eur. 3. p. 40. t. 74. D. lon- 

 gifolia, Smith, engl. bot. t. 867. Fl. dan. 1028. 



Var. ft, dislachya (D. C. prod. l.p. 318.) scape bifid, 2-spiked 

 at apex. I/ . H. Native of Europe and North America. 



Round-leaved or Common Sun-dew. Fl. Jul. Aug. Brit. PI. -5- ft. 



23 D. INTERMEDIA (Drev. et Hayne, pi. eur. 3. p. 43. t. 75. 

 b.) leaves obovate on longer glabrous footstalks ; scapes ascend- 

 ing, a little higher than the leaves ; seeds exarillate. If. . H. 

 Native in many parts of Europe, plentiful in Britain along with 

 D. rotundifolia in mossy turfy bogs, generally among sphagnum. 

 D. longifolia, Lin. spec 403. D. rotundifolia, Smith, engl. 

 bot. 868. Disk and edge of leaves beset with glandular hairs 

 as in D, rotundifolia. Flowers white, often reddish. Styles 6-8. 



Var. fi, corymbosa (D. C. prod. 1. p. 318.) scape bifid, 

 branches diverging ; flowers in cymose corymbs. I/ . H. Na- 

 tive about the Hague. 



Var. y, Americana (D. C. 1. c.) scape simple ; leaves oblong- 

 obovate. !{.. H. Native in swamps filled with sphagnum from 

 Canada to Carolina. PI. j to 1 foot. 



Intermediate Sun-dew. Fl. July, Aug. Britain. PI. -| to ^ ft. 



24 D. COMMI/NIS (St. Hil. pi. usu. bras. no. 15. in mem. 

 mus. 11. p. 349.) leaves spatulate with an obovate border, very 

 blunt, upper surface as well as margins clothed with glandular 

 hairs, under surface rather naked ; stipulas capillaceously-many- 

 parted ; scapes rather ascending ; calyxes 4-parted, covered 

 with glandular down. If. . S. Native of Brazil. Flowers pur- 

 ple. This plant is considered good pasture for sheep in Brazil. 



Common Sun-dew. PI. i foot. 



25 D. A'NGLICA (Huds. angl. 135.) leaves oblong, obtuse, 

 narrowed at the base on glabrous footstalks rather longer 

 than the leaves ; scapes erect, almost twice the length of 

 the leaves ; seed arillate ; styles 8 ; capsules with 4 valves. 

 If. . H. Native of middle and northern Europe in bogs, in several 

 parts of Britain. Three miles from Carlisle towards Scotland ; 

 in Lancashire and Bedfordshire. Abundant on bogs near Small- 

 burgh House of Industry, Norfolk. In several parts of Scot- 

 land. Gathered on St. Faith's bogs, Norfolk in 1781. Smith, 

 engl. bot. t. 869. Pet. h. brit. t. 63. f. 12. Flowers white, 

 but often reddish. 



Far.fi, subuniflbra (D. C. prod. 1. p. 318.) scape 1-2-flowered. 

 If. . H. Native on Mount St. Gothard. 

 English Sun-dew. Fl. July, Aug. Britain. PI. \ foo* 



26 D. IINEA'RIS (Gold, in edin. phil. journ. 182 I> 



leaves linear, obtuse, on very long naked footstalk f.* 



radical; flowers few; calyx glabrous. I/. F. Kative in 

 Upper Canada in bogs about Lake Simcoe. Flowers purple ? 

 Zi'near-leaved Sun-dew. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1822. PI. 1 ft. 



27 D. GRAMINIFO'LIA (St. Hil. in mem. mus. 11. p. 351. 

 1. 19. f. c.) leaves sessile, linear, long, erect, upper surface and 

 margins clothed with glandular hairs, under surface villous ; 



VOL. i. PART iv. 



stipulas ovate, ciliated at the apex ; scapes triangular, villous, 

 simple. If.. S. Native of Brazil on the tops of the mountains 

 called Serra-da-Caraca in the province of Minas Geraes ; at the 

 height of 6000 feet above the level of the sea. Flowers purple, 

 leaning to one side. 



Grass-leaved Sun-dew. Fl. Feb. PI. foot. 



28 D. SPIRA'LIS (St. Hil. in mem. mus. 11. p. 352.) leaves 

 linear, sessile, long, at last spirally twisted ; stipulas lanceolate, 

 hardly ciliated at the apex : scape flattened, bifid, clothed with 

 glandular down. If, . S. Native of Brazil on the mountains 

 called Serra-de-Curumatahy at the rivulet called C;,rgo-Novo in 

 that part of the province of Minas Geraes called Distritodos- 

 Diamantes, at the height of about 3700 feet above the level of 

 the sea. Flowers purple, leaning to one side. 



Spiral-leaved Sun-dew. Fl. July. PI. ^ foot. 



29 D. FILIFO'RMIS (Raf. in Desf. journ. 1808. 1. p. 227.) 

 leaves filiform, very long ; footstalks woolly at the base, much 

 shorter than the leaves ; scapes erect, hardly equal in length to 

 the leaves. If. . F. Native of North America in pine barrens 

 of New Jersey near Tuckerton. Pursh, fl. amer. sept. 211. 

 D. tenuifolia, Willd. enum. p. 340. An elegant plant with large 

 purple flowers. Stipulas complicately dissected. 



/V7j/brwz-leaved Sun-dew. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1811. PI. 1 ft. 



30 D. VILLO'SA (St. Hil. in mem. mus. 11. p. 349.) leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, tapering into the footstalk with the margins 

 and upper surface clothed with glandular hairs, under surface 

 villous ; footstalks villous ; stipulas 2-parted, ciliately jagged ; 

 scapes erect, 4-times longer than the leaves ; seeds oblong, 

 striated, transversely reticulated. If. . S. Native of Brazil on 

 gravelly humid parts of the mountains called Serra-Negra in the 

 province of Minas Geraes. Flowers purple, leaning to one side. 



Villous Sun-dew. Fl. Jan. Feb. PI. 1 foot. 



31 D. ASCE'NDENS (St. Hil. in mem. mus. 11. p. 350.) leaves 

 linear, rather tapering towards the base, under surface villous, 

 upper surface and margins clothed with glandular hairs, even 

 beyond the middle ; scapes ascending ; pedicels all bractless ; 

 calyxes covered with glandular down. If.. S. Native of Brazil 

 in gravelly humid parts of the mountains called Serra-de-Curu- 

 matahy, on the northern part of the province of Minas Geraes, 

 at the height of about 3700 feet above the level of the sea. 

 Flowers purple, leaning to one side. 



Ascending Sun-dew. Fl. Sept. PI. g to 1 foot. 



32 D. CAPE'NSIS (Lin. spec. 403.) leaves subradical, oblong- 

 linear, obtuse, tapering at the base ; footstalks glabrous, shorte- 

 than the limbs of the leaves ; scape rather ascending, sonr- 

 hairy, longer than the leaves. !{.. S. Native of th p ' 

 Good Hope. Burm. afr. t. 75. f. 1. Flowers pi' 



Cape Sun-dew. Fl. June, July. Clt. ? 



2. Caulescentes. Caulescef ^testem. 



S3 D. RAMENTA'CEA (Burc^ Vj& and D. C. prod. 1. 



p. 318.) stem erect, cov- O iu deflexed leaves ; leaves 



on the top of the <' jumewhat rosulate, on ciliated 



footstalks whv", .uan the limbs of the leaves ; stipulas 



cut. T- .,ve of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers 



sous Sun-dew. PL 1 foot. 



'J. HI'LARIS (Schlecht. ex Spreng. syst. app. p. 126.)caules- 

 ,jnt ; leaves rosulately crowded at the apex, spatulate-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, beset with glandular pili, with the under surface and pe- 

 tioles villous ; stipulas wanting ; racemes secund, bracteate. 

 % . S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers probably red. 



Cheerful Sun-dew. PL \ foot. 



35 D. MADAGASCARIE'NSIS (D. C. prod. 1. p. 318.) stem as- 

 cending ; leaves scattered, obovate, on glabrous footstalks, 

 which are longer than the limbs of the leaves ; stipulas ciliately- 





