i62 PENTANDRIA HEXAGYNIA. [CL. V- 



egg-shaped, compressed. Styles from the side of each germen, 

 as long as the stamens; stigmas obtuse. Seeds five, egg-shaped, 

 smooth, compressed, in the bottom of the enlarged calyx, which 

 is closed over them. Named after Sir Robert Sibbald, a Scottish 

 naturalist. 177. 



1. S. procumbens. Procumbent Sibbaldia. Leaves ternate ; leaflets 



wedge-shaped, with three terminal teeth. Roots woody, tufted: 



stems spreading or procumbent, from one to three inches long : 

 calyx large, hairy : petals small, yellow. Perennial : flowers in 

 July : grows on the summits of the higher mountains of Scotland : 

 common. Eng. Bot. vol. xiii. pi. 897. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 121. 490. 



HEXAGYNIA. 



93. DRO'SERA. SUN-DEW. 



Calyx inferior, of one leaf, deeply divided into five acute, per- 

 manent segments. Petals from five to eight, nearly egg-shaped, 

 obtuse. Filaments from five to eight, awl-shaped, as long as 

 the calyx ; anthers small, roundish. Germen roundish. Styles 

 from six to eight, simple, as long as the stamens ; stigmas club- 

 shaped. Capsule egg-shaped, one-celled, with three or four 

 valves. Seeds numerous, minute, inversely egg-shaped, attached 

 to the middle of each valve. Name from drosos, dew. 178. 



1. 1), rotundifolia. Round-leaved Sun-dew. Leaves round, on 

 hairy stalks ; flower-stalks from the root, forming a simple cluster. 

 Leaves from the root, numerous, lying close to the ground, tapering 

 into a flat hairy stalk, and beset with red hairs, discharging a drop 

 of clammy fluid from their tips : petals five, white. Perennial : 

 flowers in July and August : grows in bogs and on wet heaths : 

 common. Eng. Bot. vol. xiii. pi. 867. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 122. 491 . 



2. D. longifolia. Long -leaved Sun-dew. Leaves inversely egg- 

 shaped, on smooth stalks ; flower-stalks from the root, forming a 



simple cluster. Leaves from the root, numerous, ascending, 



tapering into a flat, smooth stalk, and beset with hairs as in the 

 last species : petals white. Perennial: flowers in July and August : 

 grows in bogs and on wet heaths : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. 

 xiii. pi. 868. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 123. 492. 



3. D. A'nglica. Great Sun-dew. Leaves oblong, erect, on smooth 

 stalks ; flower-stalks from the root, forming a simple cluster; styles 



eight; capsules four-valved. Twice the size of the last, with 



more slender leaves. Perennial : flowers in July and August : 

 grows in bogs and on moist heaths, in England and Scotland : not 

 common. Eng. Bot. vol. xiii. pi. 869. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 123. 493. 



