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4. T. RECDBVA, Hook. A slender, densely-tufted plant of small growtli, but 

 often living in water, and then lengthening to a foot or more. Leaves linear, 

 slightly connate, often exceeding \ inch. Flowers few, solitary in the axils 

 towards the ends of the stems, on slender stalks nearly as long as the leaves. 

 Sepals about f line long. Petals about the same length. Pruiting-carpels about 

 J line long. P. intricata, Nees. 



Very common in wet places. It occurs throughout Australia. PI. Dec. 



Oedjde XXlX.—I>ROSERACE^. 



Pistil of few intimately blended carpels, with usually a common ovarian 

 pavity, slightly, or not at all, sunk in the torus. Sepals arising from the torus, 

 close to the pistil, usually 4 or 5. Petals and stamens usually of the same 

 number, and inserted at their bases. 



A small order of Saxifrageom herbs, kept in a separate order for their similar 

 and peculiar habit. 



Found in most parts of the world. 



DROSERA. 



Ovarian cavity common. Placentas parietal. Fruit a capsule. Leaves 

 bearing numerous stalked glands that secrete a proteid digesting fluid. 

 Distribution as wide as the order. 



Leaf laminse longer than broad. 



Leaf long, spathulate. Flowers 1-2 together ... 1. D. arcturi. 



Leaf short, spathulate. Flowers numerous, in a 



raceme ... .. ... ... ... .- 2. D.spathulata. 



Leaf forked ... ... ... ... ... . ■ ■ 3. J>. binata. 



Leaf lajninEe peltate or nearly so. 



Minute. Flowers under 1 line 4. 2*. pygmaa. 



Erect. Sepals hairless 6- B. auriculata. 



Erect. Sepals hairy ... ... ... ... ... 6. D. peltata. 



Twining or tangled. Flowers large. Sepals hairy .. . 7. D. menziesii. 



1. D. ARCTUBI, S. Small, erect. Leaves radical, 2-4 inches long, spathulate. 

 Flowers 1 or few, on a slender stalk 2-6 inches long, white, |-| inch diameter. 



All southern and western mountains from La Perouse to Ironstone ; also 

 Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand. Fl. Dec. 



2. D. SPATHULATA, Lab. Leaves in a small, dense, radical tuft, obovate to 

 spathulate, J-| inch long. Flowers numerous, about 2 lines long, in a spike-like 

 raceme, on a slender stalk 4-6 inches long. ' 



Kingston, George's Bay, Rocky Cape, in yfet heaths ; also South and East 

 Australia, New Zealand, and probably Eastern Asia. Fl. Feb. 



3. D. BINATA, Lab. ' Leaves all radical, 4-8 inches long, the upper portion 

 divided into two equal linear lobes. Flowers white, |-| inch across, few or 

 many in a small loose panicle, on a stalk 6 inches to 1| foot long. 



Found in numerous situations in weib hea+hs ; also South and East Australia 

 and New Zealand. Fl, Deo, 



4. D. PYGMJIA, D. C. Very small. Leaves forming a radical rosette, red, 

 orbicular, mostly under 1 line, Flowers single, under 1 line long, on a slender 

 stalk \-l inch long. 



Very common in heaths ; also in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, 

 and New Zealand. Fl. summer. 



5.- D. AUEICULATA, Back. Erect, slender, unbranched, 6-12 inches high 

 Leaves in a tuft at the base, and alternately disposed on the stem, stalk slender 



