162 PENTANDRIA HEXAOYNIA. [CL. V. 



shaped, compressed. Styles from the side of each germen, as long 

 as the stamens ; stigmas obtuse. Seeds five, egg-shaped, smooth, 

 compressed, in the bottom of the enlarged calyx, which is closed 

 over them. Named after Sir Robert Sibbald, a Scottish naturalist. 



177. 

 1. S. procumbent. Procumbent Sibbald ia. Leaves ternate ; leaflets 



wedge-shaped, with three terminal teeth. Roots woody, tufted ; steins 



spreading or procumbent, from one to three inches long : calyx large, 

 hairy: petals small, yellow. Perennial: flowers in July : grows on the 

 summits of the higher mountains of Scotland : common. Eng. Eat. 

 vol. xiii. pi. 897. Eng. Fl. vol.ii. p. 121. 490. 



HEXAGYNIA. 



93. DRO'SERA. SUN-DEW. 



Calyx inferior, of one leaf, deeply divided into five acute, ] er- 

 manent segments. Petals from five to eight, nearly egg-shaped, 

 obtuse. Filaments from five to eight, awl-shaped, as long as the 

 calyx ; anthers small, roundish. Germen roundish. Styles from 

 six to eight, simple, as long as the stamens ; stigmas club-shaped. 

 Capsule egg-shaped, one-celled, with three or four valves. Seeds 

 numerous, minute, inversely egg-shaped, attached to the middle of 

 each valve. Name from drosos, dew. 178. 



1. D. rotiind'tfolia. Round-leaved Sun-dew. Leaves round, on hairy 

 stalks ; flower-stalks from the root, forming a simple cluster. Leaves 

 from the root, numerous, lying close to the ground, tapering into a flat 

 hairy stalk, and beset with red hairs, discharging a drop of clammy fluid 

 from their tips : petals five, white. Perennial : flowers in July and 

 August : grows in bogs and on wet heaths: common. Eng. Bot. vol. xiii. 

 pi. 867. Eng. FL vol. ii. p. 122. 491. 



2. D. longifolia. Long-leaved Sun-dew. Leaves inversely egg-shaped, 

 on smooth stalks; flower-stalks from the root, forming a simple cluster. 



Leaves from the root, numerous, ascending, tapering into a flat, 



smooth stalk, and beset with hairs as in the last species : petals white. 

 Perennial: Sowers in July and August: grows in bogs and on wet 

 heaths : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. xiii. pi. 868. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. 

 p. 123. 492. 



3. D. A'nglica. Great Sun-dew. Leaves oblong, erect, on smooth 

 stalks ; flower-stalks from the root, forming a simple cluster ; styles eight ; 



capsules four-valved. Twice the size of the last, with more slender 



leaves. Perennial : flowers in July and August : grows in bogs and on 

 moist heaths, in England and Scotland : not common. Eng. Bot. 

 vol. xiii. pi. 869. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 123. 493. 



