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RESEDACEAE, the Mignonette Family 



Herbs, with alternate leaves and terminal racemes of small yel- 

 lowish flowers; sepals 6, petals 6, stamens numerous. 



One species in Michigan, with divided leaves and irregularly cleft 

 petals, blooming in summer Yellow Mignonette, Reseda lutea. 



SARRACEMACEAE, the Pitcher Plant Family 



Insectivorous plants, with hollow, pitcher-shaped leaves, and large 

 purple flowers at the ends of naked 'stems. 



One species in Michigan, growing in bogs and blooming in late 

 spring Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea. 



DROSERACEAE, the Sundew Family 



Insectivorous herbs, with a rosette of basal leaves bearing gland- 

 tipped bristles on their upper surface, and with slender racemes of 

 small white flowers in summer; inhabitants of bogs and swamps (2 

 dm. high, or less). 



la. Leaf-blade about as long as wide Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia. 

 Ib. Leaf-blade about 2 3 times as long as wide 



Sundew Drosera longifolia. 

 Ic. Leaf-blade about 5 8 times as long as wide 



Sundew^ Drosera angrlica 

 Id. Leaf-blade narrowly linear, about 10 times as long as wide 



Sundew, Drosera linearis. 



PODOSTEMACEAE, the River Weed Family 



Small submerged aquatics, growing attached to stones in run- 

 ning water, with dissected leaves and minute flowers. 



One species in Michigan River Weed, Podostemum cerntophyllum. 



CRASSULACEAE, the Orpine Family 



Herbs, with usually alternate leaves; the sepals, petals, and 

 pistils each 4 or 5, or in one species the petals none, and the stamens 

 as many or twice as many as the sepals. 



la. Leaves entire (Stonecrop) 2. 

 Ib. Leaves toothed 3. 



2a. Leaves 3 5 mm. long, very thick and fleshy (tufted plants 

 about 1 dm. high, with yellow flowers in summer) 



Stonecrop, Sedum acre* 



2b. Leaves 10 30 mm. long, flat (tu'fted plants 1 2 dm. high; 

 flowers white, in spring) Stonecrop, Sedum ternatum. 



