50 



X. DROSERACEJE 



times as many; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Styles or sessile stigmas several. " 



iDrosera, 



, ^ . Ovarii ] 



stigmas several. Capsule I -celled, wifl." 

 5 placentas and 3—5 valves, loculicidal ; valves benrin 



^ , - , ^eeds never comose. — Herlit 



J/ raar5% ground, with the leaves a^Z radical or stera-lpnt" 

 alternate. ' ^*^^ 



1. Drosera. Styles filiform. Leaves clothed with glandular hni™ 



2. Paenassia. Stigmas sessile. Leaves glabrous. 



3 



the seeds along their middle. 



Jb-Ord.I. DROSERE^. Styles (or, 

 hypogynous, as many as the petals. 

 3—5-valved. Seed ivith a minute emh, 

 pious fleshy albumen. Leaves clothed h 

 hairs, and haoing a circinate vernation. 



Capsule 1 ( 



n/o at the has 



ith beautiful 



•3) - celled, 

 (if a CO- 



1. Drosera Linn. Sun-dew. 



bling 6 



Styles 3—5, variously divided, usually bipartite and resem- 

 ng 6—10 distinct styles. Capsule 1 -celled, many-seeded - 

 ^ame derived from dpo<roc, dew, the glands exuding a pellucid 

 fluid winch makes this plant appear as if covered with dew In 

 the Latin of the middle ages (for it was unnoticed by the an- 

 o,«r,+o^ ,t is called Ros solis, a mere translation of the common 



JSearly all the species stain the paper in which they 



ts) 



name. 



are placed, of a purple colour. 



1. D. rotundifolia L. (round-leaved S.) ; leaves rad 



ovato- orbicular spreading, petioles hairy, seeds chaffy. 

 t. 867. 



JE.B. 



Bogs and moist heathy ground, frequent. 1^. 7, 8. — In all our 

 species the leaves are covered with red pedunculated viscid glands, 

 which retain insects ; the flowers are racemed, small, secundf on a 

 scape ; and the styles (3—4) are bipartite. Stigmas entire, clavate. 

 Petals almost always 6. 



2. D. longifolia L. (spathulate -leaved S.) ; leaves radicnl ob- 

 long-spathulate obtuse or obovate on longglabrous erect petioles, 

 seeds with a compact rough coat not chaffy. U. B. t. 868. 



Bogs and moist heathy ground, not uncommon ; more frequent in 

 the south than in the north. Isle of Skve. South of Ireland. X. 

 /, 8. _ Well distinguished from the following, by its rough, and not 

 loose, coat adhernig firmly to the rest of the seed, a character long ago 

 observed and figured by Dreves and Hayne. Petals, sepals, and sta- 

 mens ottea 6 and sometimes 8 in this and the next species. Limb of 

 the leaf scarcely longer than .^~6 times its breadth, sometimes not 

 twice longer, gradually tapering into the glabrous petiole. Stigmas 



3. D. A^nglica Iluds. (great English S) ; leaves radical 

 Jmear-spathulate obtuse on long glabrous 



with a loose chaffy coat. 



L:. B. t 869. 



erect petioles, seeds 





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