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seem twice the number. Leaves, clustered at the root, round or 

 oblong, on long stems, glandular, hairy. June to August. 



Flowers are borne on prolonged leafless stems, on one side. 

 They open only in sunshine, and must be pressed for the 

 herbarium as soon as gathered. The curious leaves resemble 

 in shape a long-handled frying-pan. They are covered with 

 reddish hairs tipped with purple glands. 



Our pretty, bejeweled bog-herb is carnivorous. It craves 

 animal food, and employs wily means for obtaining it. An 

 insect alighting upon the open leaves instantly arouses the 

 glands to activity, as food in the stomach excites the gastric 

 juices. Red tentacles close upon and hold fast the prisoner, 

 pouring the contents of the glands upon it, and the process 

 of digestion and absorption begins at once. Only very small 

 insects can thus be entrapped, because of the smallness of 

 the leaves. 



A cranberry marsh near my summer cottage on Long 

 Island is almost carpeted with this sundew, so as to give 

 it a reddish hue. The young leaves are rolled up, like ferns, 

 from apex to base. (See illustration, p. 82.) 

 Long-leaved Sundew 

 D. longifblia.. — This differs from the last, mainly in the shape of 

 its leaves, which are spatulate, long, rather than round. Also the 

 glandular hairs are not found on the leaf-stalks. It is rarer than 

 the last, low, 3 to 8 inches high. June to August. 



In bogs, or even in water. I have found it only in wet 

 woods in New Jersey. 



Stonecrop. Orpine 

 Sedum ternktum. — (From sedeo, to sit, these plants often grow- 

 ing flat upon rocks and walls). Family, Orpine. Sepals and nar- 

 row petals, 4 or 5. Stamens, twice as many. Pistils, 5, forming 

 in fruit a 5 -celled capsule, angled, beaked, opening by the falling 

 off of the beaks. Stems, 4 to 5 inches high, spreading, flattish. 

 Flowers, in one-sided, at first coiled, leafy, 3-spiked cymes. 

 Leaves, thick, succulent, the lower in whorls of 3, wedge-shaped, 

 broader at apex, the upper scattered, oblong. 



Not uncommon, from Connecticut to Georgia and west- 

 ward. 



Early Saxifrage 

 Saxifraga. %'rginiensis.— "Family, Saxifrage. Calyx, 5-parted. 

 Petals, 5. Stamens, 10. Pistil, 1. Styles, 2. Fruit, a purplish 



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