Droseracee. IQI 
pretty dwarf annual about 6 inches high with a profusion of 
crimson or scarlet flowers tinged with yellow. Cotylédon 
Umbilicus, the Navelwort or Pennywort, found growing on dry 
banks and walls, also belongs to this group. 
Orver XLIL—DROSERACEA:. 
The Sundew family deserves mentioninz here, though it is 
very rare that attempts are made to cultivate any of the species. 
They are distinguished by their free ovary with numerous 
seeds on parietal placentas and glandular leaves. Dionéa 
muscipula, Venus’s Flytrap, is sometimes met with. It is a 
native of North America, and remarkable for the irritability of 
its leaves, which close upon being touched. Drosophgllum 
Lusitinicum is a very showy shrubby plant, from Portugal, 
bearing large terminal corymbs of pale yellow flowers. With 
the exception of the last-inentioned plant, which grows in 
sandy places, nearly all the members of this order inhabit 
boggy or marshy localities. There are three British species 
of Drésera: D. rotundifolia having spreading orbicular leaves 
with hairy petioles, and D. Anglica and D. intermedia having 
oblong-spathulate sub-erect leaves with glabrous petioles ; 
the latter is known by its flower-scapes being eurved at the 
base. 
Orper XLIL—HAMAMELIDE. 
This is a somewhat anomalous group of shrubs and trees. 
Leaves usually stipulate and alternate, simple, entire, toothed 
or lobed. Flowers often small and unisexual, usually in dense 
heads. Fruit a woody capsule, 2-celled, 2- ormany-seeded. About 
fifteen genera, and as many more species, are referred here. 
1, FOTHERGILLA. 
A genus of one North American species, occasionally seen in 
our gardens. Flowers white, in dense terminal bracteate 
spikes. Petals none. Stamens about 24; filaments long, 
clavate. Capsule 2-seeded. Named after Dr. Fothergill. 
1. F. alnifolia.—A dwarf straggling shrub with slender 
crooked branches. Leaves deciduous, obliquely ovate, pube- 
scent beneath, irregularly crenate, or lobed above the middle. 
Flowers fragrant, produced in May before the leaves. 
