Drosera.] dkoserace^. 65 



|3. minor. Stem 'woody, leaves smooth and rigid, spur short obtuse and yellow- 

 ish. V. flavicornis, Sm. E. Fl. i. p. 305 ; E. B. xxxviii. ; Suppl. t. 2736. 



Everywhere in woods, thickets, pastures, on banks, heaths and bushy places. 

 Fl. April — August. If. 



j3. Near Debbourne farm. Miss G. Kilderhee. 



5. V. lactea, Sm. Cream-coloured Violet. " Stem dividing into 

 procumbent or suberect flowering branches, leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late scarcely cordate at the base (JET. W.), stipules ciliato- dentate 

 or entire, sepals acuminate." — Br. Fl. p. 48. E. B. t. 445. 



On heathy and boggy ground, rare. Fl. May. '^.. 



E.Med. — On Staplers heath, and at Mount Misery, both by Newport, G. 

 Kirkpatrick, Esq. ! 



W. Med. — Inclosuves about Parkhurst barracks, Mr. W. D. Snooke. 



6. V. tricolor, L. Pansy. Heart' s-ease. Love in Idleness. 

 " Root annual or fusiform, stem angled branched, leaves oblong 

 deeply crenate, stiptiles lyrate-pinnatifid, spur of the coroUa about 

 as long as the produced base of the calyx." — Br. Fl. p. 48. 



j8. minor. Petals shorter than the calyx. Br. Fl. p. 48. Fl. Dan. x. t. 1748. 

 V. arvensis, Murray, Forster. E. B. xxxviii. t. 2712. 



|3. Common in cultivated fields and waste ground, also on dry banks, in open 

 cultivated fields and waste places, very common. Fl. the whole summer. 0., 

 ^. or If. (perhaps only when cultivated). In this var. the flowers are pale yel- 

 low or whitish, and the germen nearly globular, with a dark spot on the style in 

 front immediately below the stigma. 



It is remarkable that the only form of V. tricolor known in this island in the 

 wild slate should be the var. |g. minor. The Rev. G. E. Smith has remarked that 

 the normal form with deeply coloured petals, much longer than the calyx, or the 

 true Pansy, becomes the more common of the two in the North of England, 

 where, as in Shropshire and Yorkshire, it decorates the fields in rich profusion ; 

 whilst in the South it is comparatively rare, and there mostly assumes the more 

 contracted habit we observe in the above variety. 



Order X. DROSEEACEiE, DC. 



"Sepals usually 5, persistent, equal. Petals as many as the 

 sepals. Stamens free, equal in number with the petals or 3 — 4 

 times as many ; anthers dehisciag longitudinally. Ovary 1. Styles 

 or sessile stigiflas several. Capsule 1-ceUed, with 3 — 5 placentas 

 and 3 — 5 valves, loculicidal ; valves beariag the seeds along their 

 middle. Seeds never comose. — Herbs of marshy ground, with the 

 leaves all radical or stem-leaves alternate." — Br. Fl. 



I. Drosera, Linn. Sun-dew. 



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

 bling 6—10 distinct styles. Capsule l-ceUed, many-seeded."— 

 Br. Fl. 



1. B.-rotundifolia,!!. Round-leaved Sun-dew. " Leaves radi- 

 cal obovato-orbicular spreading, petioles hairy, seeds chaffy."— 

 Br. Fl. p. 50. E. B. t. 867. 



