( 4o ) 
The leaves are many, inclining to bend downwards, and are 
placed in a circular order; they are jointed and fucculent: 
the lower joint, which is a kind of ltalk, is flat, longifh, 
two-edged, and inclining to heart-fhaped. In fome varieties 
they are leitated on the edges near the top. The upper 
joint conflfls of two lobes; each lobe is of a femi-oval form, 
with their margins furnifhed with ftiff hairs like eye- 
brows, which embrace or lock into each other, when they 
clofe : this they do when they are inwardly irritated. 
The upper furface of thefe lobes are covered with fmall red 
glands, each of which appears, when highly magnified, 
like a comprefled arbutus berry. 
Among the glands about the middle of each lobe, are three 
very fmall ere 61 fpines. When the lobes inclofe any fub- 
ftance, they never open again while it continues there. If 
it can be fhoved out, fo as not to ftrain the lobes, they ex- 
pand again; but if force is ufed to open them, fo ftrong has 
nature formed the fpring of their fibres, that one of the lobes 
generally fnaps oft, rather than yield. 
The ftalk is about fix inches high, round, fmooth, and with- 
out leaves, ending in a fpike of flowers. 
The flowers are milk-white, and hand on foot ftalks, at the 
bottom of each of which is a little pointed brafilea, or flower- 
leaf. 
As to the culture of it: the foil it grows in (as appears from 
what comes about the roots of the plants, when they are brought 
over) is a black light mould, intermixed with white land; fuch as 
is ufually found on our moorifh heaths. 
Being a fwamp plant, a north-eafl: afpect will be the properefl: 
lituation at firfl: to plant it in, to keep it from the direft rays of 
the meridian fun; and in winter, till we are acquainted with what 
cold weather it can endure, it will be neceflary to fhelter it with a 
bell-glafs, 
