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ing and at length reflexed pedicels; capsule globose, 

 3-seeded. Dry places in small prairies. June and July. 

 Petals purple. — Dr, Drummoiid. 



HUDSONIA, L. 



Petals 5, larger than the sepals, fugacious. Stamens 

 9-30. Style filiform. Stigma minute. Capsule oblong, 

 1-celled, 3-valved, with 2-6 erect seeds attached near the 

 base. Embryo coiled. Low tufted shrubs, with minute, 

 hoary, subulate, imbricated leaves. Flowers yellow. 



17. SUNDEW FAMILY. Order, DROSERACEiE. 



Low glandular-hairy marsh herbs, with circinate tufted 

 radical leaves. 



Sepals and petals 5. Stamens 5-15. Ovary 1-celled, 

 many-ovuled, with 3 or 5 parietal placentae. Styles sepa- 

 rate or united. Capsule loculicidally 3-5-valved. Seeds 

 anatropous. Flowers white or purple, hypogynous, borne 

 on a naked scape. 



DROSERA, L. Sukdew. 



Stamens 5. Styles 3-5, defeply 2-parted; the divisions 

 2-many-lobed. Capsule 3-valved, many-seeded. Leaves 

 dewy and glandular. Scape often forking. Floiuers 

 racemose. 



D. ROTUNDIFOLIA, Pursh. Leaves orbicular, abruptly 

 contracted into the hairy petiole; scape erect, smooth, 

 6-10-flowered. Calyx ovoid ; seeds covered with a loose 

 membranaceous coat. Rliizoma none. Leaves 2' long. 

 Scapes 6-9' high. Floivers white. 



18. PARNASSIA FAMILY. Order, Parnassiace^. 

 Perennial smooth lierhsy with ovate or reniform chiefly 



