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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



should be kept tolerably dry in the winter after it has died 

 down. The tuberous roots may be divided. 



DjRQSMRA GEM. 



Exogens, with the young flowering-stalk curved or rolled up. 

 The divisions of the calyx five, not falling off. Petals five, im- 

 bricated. Stamens distinct and withering, either equal in 

 number to the petals and alternate with them, or two, three, 

 and four times as many. Ovary single. Styles three to five. 

 Leaves with stipulary fringes.— Delicate herbaceous marsh plants, 

 often covered with glands, and of a slightly acrid nature. 



DROSERA. (Sun-dew.) 



Gen. Char. (Pentandria Pentagynia!) Mowers inferior ; petals 

 five ; capsule of three valves, with many seeds. 



Named from the Greek for dew, on account of the pel- 

 lucid dew-like glands on the surface of the leaves. These 

 plants may be treated as water-plants in the greenhouse, 

 and where there are tanks for holding those of a similar 

 character, they may be added with advantage, or they may 

 be planted in chopped moss and sandy peat, kept very wet. 

 Erom the Cape we have received D. acaulis and pauciflora, 

 which are white-flowered, and cuneifolia, with whitish-red 



