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Ohuer CLVII. DROSERACI .1 



D ■ . c, DC. Thtorie, 214. (181Wj Prodr. I. 317. i -_i . 



Diagnosis. BerberalEi . //, regular tymmei 

 mens alternate with i.'o 



Delicate hi rbaei oua plants, '-ft.- vexed with glands. L .... - :,lt. mate, with si 



buy fringes and a circinate vernation. Peduncles, when young, circinate. 

 persistent, equal, with an imbricated aestivation. Petals 5, hypogynous, imbni 



Stamens distinct, withering, 

 i ither equal in number to the 

 petals and alternate with 

 them, or '.., 3, or I tin 

 many. < )vary Bingle ; Btyles 

 • ither wholly distinct, or 

 slightly connected at the base, 

 bifid or branched. Ovules 

 00, parietal, i r attached to a 

 placenta at the base, anatro- 

 pal. Capsule of 3 or 5 valves, 

 which l/car the placentae 

 either in the middle or at 

 their base, and sometimes 

 turn in their edges bo a> to 

 form almost perfect dissepi- 

 ments. Seeds either naked 

 or furnished with an aril. 

 Embryo minute, in the base 

 of fleshy albumen. 



These plants are gene- 

 rally supposed to be nearly 

 allied to Violetworts, from 

 which their circinate ver- 

 nation, several Btyles, and i \- 

 stipulate leaves, distinguish 

 them. Tiny are also no 

 iloulit relati • ! to Tutsans, 

 among which Parnassia 

 accords with Sundews. 

 Rock-roses i < Sstaceae) are 

 also named as approaching 

 Sundews, and so are Turner- 

 ads, the parietal placentation of these Ord ra bavins 

 li '1 to the comparison. Bui il we n gard the minuu 

 bryo and copious albumen of Sundews as thi I 

 of importance in their structure, then the) must I 

 moved from immediate relation to all the 

 mentioned, and >v i 1 1 tall into either th< 

 Erica! Alliance. The] will correspond with tin 

 in the iiuinlitT of parts in their ovary not agreeing with that of the Burroui 

 arith Pumeworta in their parietal placentation ; on the other hand the} wi 

 with Ericals m their general appearance. Aldrovanda, a water | 

 iliiehes in the South of Hiiro). e. is n markable for it-- whorli d, <■■ Ilular, ulu 



At the Cape of Co,.. I Hope, in South Amino, North An. New 1 Cfa :>• 



Europe, Madagascar, the East Indies, wherever there an margins . r i 

 plants are found. Drosophvllum lusitanicum grows on the ban 



The common Droseras are rather acid, alightly acrid, and accordii 

 • ■us to oat tie. The Drosera communis of Brazil is said by A. di Si H 

 oua to Bheep. Drosera lunata has viscid li avi - with glandular fringi -. wl 



CCC1I, Dionsea musclpula. l its pistil 

 i tii. game without its crustaccous skin, and o\ 

 <iilu Droseiu luluuditolin. I. .1 Bower ; 8 ■■> per] 



.i.ii.'alar section of a seed. 



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