82 DROSERACE^E. (sundew family.) 



smaller (^' long) elliptical or linear-oblong, often opposite or whorled ; flowers in 

 narrow rather close panicles ; pedicels longer than the oval pods ; the two outer 

 or bract-like sepals very slender, mostly longer than the others. — Open dry grounds, 

 N. New Jersey and adjacent part of New York, C. F. Austin. 



4. L. minor, Lam. Minutely hairy; stems slender, upright or diffuse; 

 leafy shoots densely tufted at the base; leaves linear ; flowers loosely racemed on 

 the slender branchlets; pedicels mostly longer than the oval pods. — Dry open 

 soil: common. June- Sept. — Plant 5'- 15' high, slender, running into num- 

 berless variations according to the soil, season, and exposure. Pods smaller 

 than in No. 2. 



Order 15. DROSERACE^E. (Sundew Family.) 



Bog-herbs, mostly glandular-haired, with regular hypogynous flowers, pen- 

 tamerous and withering-persistent calyx, corolla, and stamens, the anthers 

 fixed by their middle and turned outwards, and a 1-celled pod with twice as 

 many styles or stigmas as there are parietal placentae. — Calyx imbricated. 

 Petals convolute. Seeds numerous, anatropous, with a short and minute 

 embryo at the base of the albumen. — Leaves circinate in the bud, i. e. 

 rolled up from the apex to the base as in Ferns. (A small family, of no 

 known qualities, except a slight bitterness, &c. ; the Sundews impart a 

 purple stain to paper.) Only one genus within our limits, viz. 



1. DBOSERA, L. Sundew. 



Stamens 5. Styles 3, or sometimes 5, deeply 2-parted so that they are taken 

 for 6 or 10, slender, stigmatose above on the inner face. Pod 3- (rarely 5-) 

 Valved ; the valves bearing the numerous seeds on their middle for the whole 

 length. — Low perennials or biennials ; the leaves clothed with reddish gland- 

 bearing bristles, in our species all in a tuft at the base ; the naked scape bear- 

 ing the flowers in a 1 -sided raceme-like inflorescence, which nods at the un- 

 developed apex, so that the fresh-blown flower (which opens only in sunshine) 

 is always highest. (The glands of the leaves exude drops of a clear glutinous 

 Quid, glittering like dew-drops, whence the name, from dpoaepus, d<wy.) 



1. D. rotundif61ia, L. (Round-leaved Sundew 7 .) leaves orbicular, 

 abruptly narrowed into the spreading hairy petioles; seeds spindle-shaped, the 

 coat loose and chaff-like ; flowers white, the parts sometimes in sixes. — Peat- 

 bogs, common, especially northward. July -Aug. (Eu.) 



2. D. longifblia, L. Leaves spatulate-oblong, tapering into the long rather 

 erect naked petioles ; seeds of long, with a rough close coat; flowers white. (D. 

 intermedia, Hayne. ) — Bogs ; less common. June - Aug. — Plant raised on its 

 prolonged caudex when growing in water. (Eu.) 



3. D. linearis, Goldie. (Slender Sundew.) Leaves linear, obtuse, the 

 blade (2' -3' long, scarcely 2" wide) on naked erect petioles about the same length ; 

 seeds oblong, with a smooth and perfectly close coat; flowers white. — Shore 

 of Lake Superior. July. 



