NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 



so fortunate as to meet with its evergreen wreaths and 

 fragrant flowers in its native woods during the leafy month 

 of June, which is its flowering season though often it may 

 be seen lingering in rocky woods through July, and now 

 and then a few late blossoms will be found in shady ground 

 late in August. 



EOUND-LEAVED SUNDEW Drosera rotundifolia (L.). 



Two species of this interesting and singular family are 

 common in Canada. One, Drosera rotundifolia, with round 

 leaves beset with stiff glandular hairs of a deep red color, 

 abounds in boggy soil in most parts of the Dominion. 



The beauty of this little plant consists in the hairy 

 fringes of the leaves, which exude drops of a clear dew-like 

 fluid; each little leaf seems adorned with a row of liquid 

 gems, beautiful as pearls and glistening in the sunlight like 

 miniature diamonds. 



The round red leaves are prolonged into the petiole, or 

 rather the leafstalk is expanded at its edges and terminates 

 in the glandular leaf. The flowers are small, white, some- 

 times tinged with pink, borne on a slender naked somewhat 

 one-sided scape, which droops a little at the tip. I am not 

 aware of any medicinal or useful qualities of the Sundews, 

 but the eye that sees the beauty set forth in the little dew- 

 gemmed leaf of this lovely plant may behold in it with 

 reverent admiration a work of creative mind surpassing all 

 that man's ingenuity can produce. The jeweller may polish 

 and set the ruby and the diamond in fretted gold, but he 

 cannot make one ruby-tinted leaf of the little Sundew. 



A rather narrower-leaved species is Drosera longi folia 

 (L.), which grows abundantly in a peat marsh near Stoney 

 Lake, at a spot known as " Hurricane Point," a rocky cape 



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