178 CRASSULACE^l. ( ORPINE FAMILY.) 



S. TELEPHIUM, L. (GARDEN ORPINE or LIVE-FOR-EVER.) Stems erect 

 (2 high), stout ; leaves oval, obtuse, toothed ; cymes compound ; petals purple, 

 oblong-lanceolate ; follicles abruptly pointed with a short style. Rocks and 

 banks, escaped from cultivation in some places. July. (Adv. from Eu.) 



5. REFLEXUM, L. Glabrous, erect, 1 high; leaves crowded, cylindric, subu* 

 late-tipped spreading or reflexed ; flowers yellow, pedicelled. Coast of Mass. ; 

 western N. Y. ; rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



i- <- Flouqps dioecious, mostly 4-merous and 8-androus. 



6. S. Khodiola, DC. (ROSEROOT.) Stems erect (5 -10' high); leaves 

 oblong or oval, smaller than in the preceding ; flowers in a close cyme, greenish- 

 yellow, or the fertile turning purplish. Throughout Arctic America, extend- 

 ing southward to the coast of Maine, and cliffs of Delaware River ; also in the 

 western mountains. May, June. (Eu.) 



ORDER 37. DKOSEKACE-^. (SUNDEW FAMILY.) 



Bog-herbs, mostly glandular-haired, with regular hypogynous flowers, pen* 

 tamerous and withering-persistent calyx, corolla, and stamens, the anthers 

 fixed by the middle and turned outward, and a l-celled capsule with twice 

 as many styles or stigmas as there are parietal placentce. Calyx imbri- 

 cated. Petals convolute. Seeds numerous, anatropous, with a short and 

 minute embryo at the base of the albumen. Leaves circinate in the bud, 

 i. e., rolled up from the apex to the base as in Ferns. A small family of 

 insectivorous plants. 



1. DROSERA, L. SUNDEW. 



Stamens 5. Styles 3, or sometimes 5, deeply 2-parted so that they are taken 

 for 6 or 10, slender, stigmatose above on the inner face. Capsule 3- (rarely 5-) 

 valved ; the valves bearing the numerous seeds on their middle for the whole 

 length. Low perennials or biennials ; the leaves clothed with reddish gland- 

 bearing bristles, in our species all in a tuft at the base ; the naked scape bearing 

 the flowers in a 1 -sided raceme-like inflorescence, which nods at the undevel- 

 oped apex, so that the fresh-blown flower (which opens only in sunshine) is 

 always highest. The plants yield a purple stain to paper. (The glands of the 

 leaves exude drops of a clear glutinous fluid, glittering like dew-drops, whence 

 the name, from tipoffepbs, dewy.) 



1. D. rotundif61ia, L. (ROUND-LEAVED SUNDEW.) Leaves orbicular^ 

 abruptly narrowed into the spreading hairy petioles ; seeds spindle-shaped, the 

 coat loose and chaff -like ; flowers white, the parts sometimes in sixes. Peat- 

 bogs, Lab. to Minn., Ind., and southward ; common. July, Aug. (Eu.) 



2. D. intermedia, Hayne, var. Americana, DC. Leaves spatulate- 

 oblong, tapering into the long rather erect naked petioles ; seeds oblong, with a 

 rough close coat ; flowers white. (D. longifolia, Gray, Manual.) Bogs, with 

 the same range but less common. June - Aug. Plant raised on its prolonged 

 caudex when growing in water. (Eu.) 



3. D. linearis, Goldie. (SLENDER SUNDEW.) Leaves linear, obtuse, the 

 blade (2 - 3' long, scarcely 2" wide) on naked erect petioles about the same length ; 

 seeds oblong, with a smooth and perfectly close coat ; flowers white. Shore 

 of L. Superior, Mich., and Minn, 



