PENTANDRIA— HEXAGYNIA. Drosera. 121 



S. procumbens. Linn. Sp. PL 406. Fl. Lapp. erf. 2. 82. Willd. 



V. 1. 1567. Fl. Br. 345. Engl.Bot.v. 13. i. 897. Dicks. H. Sice. 



fasc. 10. 12. Hook. Scot. 97. FI.Dan. t. 32. 

 Fragaria n. 1116. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 46. 

 Fragariae sylvestri affinis planta, flore luteo. Sihb. Scot. p. 2. 25. 



t.G.f.l. 

 Pentaphylloides pumila, foliis ternis ad extremitates trifidis. Raii 



Si/n. 256. 

 Scotch Cinquefoil. Pet. H. Brit. i. 41./. 7. 



On the summits of the Highland mountains of Scotland, in a mi- 

 caceous soil, plentiful. 



Perennial. July. 



Roots woody, tufted, much branched at the summit. Stems her- 

 baceous, spreading or procumbent, from 1 to 3 inches long, round, 

 leafy, but little subdivided, clothed with coarse upright hairs, like 

 the rest of the herbage. Lea/lets i an inch to an inch long, 

 bright green, veiny ; the middle tooth smallest ; the lateral 

 ones sometimes cloven. Footstalks longer than the leaflets, with 

 a pair of attached, pointed, parallel, membranous stipiilas at the 

 bottom, indicative of the natural order. Fl. in corymbose leafy 

 tufts. Cal. large, hairy. Pet. small, yellow. The whole plant 

 is astringent, like others of the same tribe. Plukenet's f. 212, 

 f. 3, "is most evidently Potentilla suhucaulis, a much more soft 

 and downy plant, with solitary flowers, of a larger size. Tq 

 this Bauhin's synonyms, in Linn, and Willdenow, belong. 



PENTANDRIA HEXAGYNIA. 



182. DROSERA. Sun-dew. 



Linn. Ge}i. \54. Juss. 245. Fl. Br. 346. Lam.t. 220. Gcertn.t.6l. 

 Ros Solis. Tourn. f. 127. 



Nat. Ord. Gruinales. Linn. 14. Allied to Capparides. 

 Juss. 64. Drosei'acea;. DeCand. 30. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 or more, deep, acute, perma- 

 nent segments. Pet. 5 — 8, obovate-oblong, obtuse, with 

 claws, moderately spreading, rather longer than the calyx. 

 Filam. 5 — 8, awl-shaped, the length of the calyx. Anth. 

 small, roundish. Gcrmcn roundish. Sti/les 6 — 8, simple, 



