42 DROSERACE.E. 



minute. Petals 5. Stamens 9 to 30. Style straight, 

 filiform. Stigma simple. Capsule obloDg enclosed in the 

 calyx, 1 -celled, 3-valved, 1 to 6-seeded. — Bushy heath-like 

 little shrubs with verg numerous branches, and minute awl- 

 shaped or scale-like persistent leaves, and numerous, small, 

 fhowv, bright-yellow flowers. 



1. H. eriocoides, L. Heath-like Hudsonia. 



Downy tut greenish: stem sub-erect; branches elongated; leaves filiform, awt» 

 shaped, loose; powers on slender naked stalks; sepals acutish. 



Dry sandy woods : rare. May and June. Stem 4 to C inches high, much branched. 

 ■Leaves small persistent. Flowers small, yellow, with about 15 stamens. 



2. H. tomentosa, Nutt, Downy Hudsonia. 



Hoary and downy; leaves oval or oblong, close pressed and imbricated; fiowert 

 aggregated, sessile; calyx sub-cylindrical, with obtuse segments. 



Sandy soil; rare. June. Stem ascending, much branched. Flowers yellow, 

 smaller than the preceding. Stamens 9 to 18. Whole plant silvery-gray and 



Order 17. DROSERACEffi. 



Bog herbs mostly stemless, often covered u-ith glandular hairs ; alternate leaves, or 

 clustered at the base of a scape, tapering into a petiole, rolled up from the apex to the 

 base in vernation. Sepals 5, persistent, equal. Coeolla of 5 nearly equal petal*. 

 Stamens 5 to 15 ; asthers turned outwards. Styles 3 to 5, either wholly distinct, 

 or slightly connected at the base, bifid or branched. Fruit a capsule 1 to 3 celled, 

 8 to 5 valved, usually many-seeded, sometimes ariled. 



1. DKOSEKA. Linn. Sundew. 



Gr. drosos, dew ; the glands exuding a dew-like secretion. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Petals 5. Stamens 5. Styles 

 3 to 5, each 2-parted. Capsule superior, globose cr ovoid, 

 1 to 3 celled, 3 to 5 valved, the valves bearing the numerous 

 seeds on the middle, for their whole length. — Low perennial 

 aquatic herbs, with the leaves clothed icith reddish gland- 

 bearing bristles. 



1. D. ROTUNDIFOLIA, L. Bound-leaved Sundae. 



Leaves all radical, orbicular, abruptly narrowed into the spreading hairy petiole^ 

 fringed with purple cilia, pilose above; scape erect, bearing a terminal and mostly 

 simple 1-sided raceme, nodding at the apex, so that the fresh blown flower is 

 always the highest. 



Sphagnous Swamps. Julv and August. A singular plant at once distinguished 

 by the reddish glandular hairs with which the leaves are beset. Scape 4 to S inchci 

 high. Flowers small whitish. 



2. D. longifolia, L. Long-leaved Sundew. 



Leaves spatulate-oblong, erect, spreading, tapering into the long rather 

 naked petioles ; scape declined at the base; seeds oblong, not axillate. 



