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wide as long, clothed above with long, glandular hairs secreting a fluid 

 which entraps insects, narrowed below into glabrous petioles one-half to 

 I \ inches long; usually the entire foliage reddish or greenish red in color. 

 Flowers several in one-sided racemes; petals five, white, slightly longer than 

 the greenish sepals; the one-celled ovary surmounted by three styles, each 

 deeply two-parted so as to appear like six. 



In bogs and sphagnous places, Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, south 

 to Florida and Louisiana, and also in northern Europe. Flowering from 

 June to August. 



The Spatulate -leaved Sundew is not so common as the Round-leaved 

 Sundew (Drosera rotundif olia Linnaeus), with orbicular leaf 

 blades. Two additional Sundews occur in New York, namely the Oblong- 

 leaved Sundew (Drosera longifolia Linnaeus), with leaf blades 

 elongated-spatulate, six to eight times as long as wide; and the Thread- 

 leaved Sundew (D. filiformis (Linnaeus) Rafmesque), with linear 

 leaves ten to fifteen times as long as wide and purple flowers. The last 

 grows in wet sand near the coast, the others in bogs. 



Virginia Stonecrop Family 



Penthoraceae 

 Ditch or Virginia Stonecrop 



Penthorum sedoides Linnaeus 



Plate 87b 



Stems erect, glabrous, often branched and angled above, 6 inches 

 to 2 feet high, from a perennial root. Leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate 

 or narrowly elliptic, acuminate at each end, finely toothed, 2 to 4 inches 

 long, one-half to 1 inch wide. Flowers perfect, yellowish green, in two 

 or three forked, one-sided cymes, the branches 1 to 3 inches long. Each 

 flower about one-fifth of an inch broad; calyx five-parted, the sepals 

 triangular-ovate, pointed, shorter than the flatfish capsule; stamens ten; 

 petals often lacking, when present, linear or linear-spatulate. Fruit a 

 depressed, five-lobed capsule with five divergent tips. 



