droserace^e. 195 



Plate 84, 85. 

 DION^EA, Ellis. 



Petala 5. Stamina saspius 15. Stylus columnaris : stig- 

 mata 5, brevissima, lacerato-multifida. Capsula utriculata, 

 5-loba, imilocularis ; placenta basilari polysperma. — Herba 

 glaberrima acaulescens ; foliis radicalibus rosulato-patentibus, 

 petiolo dilatato spathulato ; lamina orbiculari utrinque emar- 

 ginata spinuloso-ciliata, vernatione conduplicata et supra 

 petiolum inflexa, irritabili, tactu cum impetu complicata ! 

 Scapus nudus, floribus cymosis albis. 



Dion.ea, Ellis, in Nov. Act. Ups. 1. p. 98. t. 8. Linn. Mant. p. 151. 

 Michi. Fl. 1. p. 267. Venten. Hort. Malm. t. 29. DC. Prodr. 

 1. p. 320. M. A. Curtis, in Bust. Jour. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1. p. 123. 

 Lindl. Ladies' Bot. 2. p. 87. t. 34, 35. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. 

 Am. 1. p. 147. Endl. Gen. 5037. 



Venns's Fly-trap. 



Calyx herbaceous, of 5 oblong-ovate sepals, quincuncially 

 imbricated in aestivation, persistent and rerlexed in fruit. 

 Petals 5, hypogynous on the margin of the dilated recepta- 

 cle, alternate with the sepals, spreading, obovate-cuneiform, 

 emarginate or truncate and somewhat erose at the extremity, 

 veiny, marcescent-persistent. Stamens (10 to 20?) com- 

 monly 15, hypogynous within the petals, shorter than they : 

 filaments filiform, monadelphous at the very base, persist- 

 ent : anthers oblong, of two parallel cells without a mani- 

 fest connective, extrorse, attached to the filament by a 

 point above the base ; the cells opening longitudinally and 

 somewhat extrorsely. Pollen of pretty large grains (about 

 the »,',-, of an inch in diameter) composed of four united. 

 Ovary depressed-ovoid, sessile by a broad base, one-celled, 

 five-lobed, the lobes alternate with the petals : style colum- 

 nar, pretty large, undivided : stigmas 5, corresponding witli 



