SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 237 



Pride or St. Patrick's Cabbage. Mountains of south-western 

 Ireland, and Yorkshire. Fl. June. 



S. G-eum : resembling the last, but the leaves are orbicular, 

 usually notched or cordate at the base, with long hairy stalks, 

 the leaves also having a few scattered hairs on both surfaces. 

 West of Ireland. Fl. June. 



(97) Drosera. SUNDEW. 



D. rotundifolia : leaves on long stalks, nearly orbicular, 

 covered on the upper surface with long, red, viscid hairs, each 

 bearing a small gland at the top ; flower-stems slender, erect, 

 glabrous, 2-6 inches high, the upper portion, consisting of a 

 simple or once-forked unilateral raceme, rolled back when 

 young, but straightening as the flowers expand : petals white, 

 expanding in sunshine. Bogs, and wet heathy ground. Fl. 

 July, August. 



D. longifolia : resembling the last, but the leaves much 

 more erect, not half so broad as long, and gradually tapering 

 into the footstalk ; flowering stem shorter and stouter. Bogs. 

 Fl. July, August. 



(98) Lythrum. LOOSESTRIFE. 



L. Salicaria : stems erect, 2-4 feet high, slightly branched, 

 glabrous or softly downy ; leaves opposite, or in threes, sessile, 

 clasping the stem, lanceolate, entire; flowers reddish-purple 

 or pink, in rather dense whorls, forming handsome terminal 

 spikes, more or less leafy at the base, the upper floral leaves 

 reduced to bracts. Wet ditches and marshy places. Fl. July, 

 August. 



(99) Peplis. WATER PURSLANE. 

 P. Portula : annual ; stems slightly branched, creeping and 



