NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
so fortunate as to meet with its evergreen wreaths and 
fragrant flowers in its native woods during the leafy month 
of June, which is its flowering season—though often it may 
be seen lingering in rocky woods through July, and now 
and then a few late blossoms will be found in shady ground 
late in August. 
ROUND-LEAVED SUNDEW—Drosera rotundifolia (L.). 
Two species of this interesting and singular family are 
common in Canada. One, Drosera rotundifolia, with round 
leaves beset with stiff glandular hairs of a deep red color, 
abounds in boggy soil in most parts of the Dominion. 
The beauty of this little plant consists in the hairy 
fringes of the leaves, which exude drops of a clear dew-like 
fluid; each little leaf seems adorned with a row of liquid 
gems, beautiful as pearls and glistening in the sunlight like 
miniature diamonds. 
The round red leaves are prolonged into the petiole, or 
rather the leafstalk is expanded at its edges and terminates 
in the glandular leaf. The flowers are small, white, some- 
times tinged with pink, borne on a slender naked somewhat 
one-sided scape, which droops a little at the tip. I am not 
aware of any medicinal or useful qualities of the Sundews, 
but the eye that sees the beauty set forth in the little dew- 
gemmed leaf of this lovely plant may behold in it with 
reverent admiration a work of creative mind surpassing all 
that man’s ingenuity can produce. The jeweller may polish 
and set the ruby and the diamond in fretted gold, but he 
cannot make one ruby-tinted leaf of the little Sundew. 
A rather narrower-leaved species is Drosera longifolia 
(L.), which grows abundantly in a peat marsh near Stoney 
Lake, at a spot known as “ Hurricane Point,” a rocky cape 
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