DROSERACE^E 



even taller than the straight, thread-like, glistening red 

 leaves. Sometimes, in the marshy ground, the plants form 

 a carpet, yards in extent, or furnish a low border to a damp, 

 thickety entanglement. If imbedded in sphagnum moss 

 and thoroughly watered, the plants will keep well in the 

 house, the flowers opening for days, but when the season 

 is over, the whole withers and cannot be transplanted to 

 the garden. 



DROSERACE^E SUNDEW FAMILY 



Drosera longifolia, L. 



White Oblong-leaved Sundew. 



June-August 



Drosera: for derivation see filij 'ormis. 

 Longifolia: Latin for long-leaved. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: open bogs, wet sand. 



THE PLANT: flower stalk erect, six inches to eight inches 

 high. 



THE LEAVES: basal; the leaf blade elongated; spatulate; 

 usually less than an inch long; with red hairs at the oblong 

 end; blunt at the apex; at the base narrowed into a hair- 

 less erect stem, which is sometimes four inches long. 



THE FLOWERS: several (one to twenty), in a raceme, less 

 than an inch wide; five stamens. 



THE FRUIT: a capsule. 



In the damp moss or wet gravel a rosette of red and 

 glistening leaves with oblong ends, and from this rosette 

 a few low, slender stems, with pure white, simple flowers 

 at their top that is the oblong-leaved Sundew. 

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