3U COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



ORDER XIV. DROSERA'CE^l. (SUNDEW FAMILY.) 



Low glandular-hairy marsh herbs, with circinate tufted 

 radical leaves, and regular hypogynous flowers borne on a 

 naked scape. Sepals, petals, and stamens, 5 each ; anthers 

 turned outwards. Styles 3-5, deeply 2-parted. Pod 1- celled, 

 3-valved. The only genus with us is 



DROS'ERA, L. SUNDEW. 



1. D. rotundifo'lia, L. (BOUND-LEAVED SUNDEW.) Flowers 

 small, white, in a 1-sided raceme. Leaves orbicular, ab- 

 ruptly narrowed into the hairy petiole, clothed with reddish 

 glandular hairs. Bogs. 



2. D. longifo'lia, L. (LONGER-LEAVED S.) has oblong- 

 spathulate leaves gradually narrowed into erect naked 

 petioles. Bogs; not common. 



ORDER XV. HYPERICA'CE^. (ST. JOHN'S-WORT F.) 



Herbs or shrubs, with opposite entire dotted leaves, and no 

 stipules. Flowers regular, hypogynous, mostly yellow. 

 Sepals 5, persistent. Petals 5, deciduous. Stamens mostly 

 numerous, and usually in 3 or more clusters. Styles 3-5, 

 sometimes united. Pod 1-5-celled. Seeds numerous. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. Hyper' icum. Petals 5, unequal-sided, convolute in the bud, yellow. 



2. Elo'des. Petals 5, equal-sided, imbricated in the bud, purplish. 



1. HYPER'ICUM, L. ST. JOHN'S- WORT. 

 * Pod 3-celled. Styles 3, separate. Petals with black dots. 



1. H. perfora'tum, L. (COMMON ST. JOHN'S-WORT.) Stem 

 much branched, producing runners at the base, slightly 2- 

 edged. Leaves linear-oblong, with transparent dots, easily 

 observed by holding the leaf up to the light. Petals deep 

 yellow. Flowers in open leafy cymes. Fields. 



2. H, eorymbo'sum, Muhl. (CORYMBEDS.) (H. macula- 

 tum, Walt.) Stem rounded, not so branching as No. 1. 

 Leaves with both black and transparent dots, oblong, somewhat 



