TUB SUNDEW hAMILY. ( ORDER xxix, DROSERACE/E.) 
CALYX of 5- 8 SEPALS, not united (fret), remaining with, the fruit (persistent), in- 
serted below the seedcasc (hypogy nous). 
COROLLA of 5~8 PETALS, not uni tect (free), overlapping in bud (imbricated), insert- 
ed below the seedcasc (hypogynousv. 
STAMENS 5-8, rarefy more, inserted betow the seedcasc (hypogynous). 
PISTIL of 3-5 CARPELS, united into a i-celLed seedcasc (ovary), and separating in- 
to 3- 5 styles, each 2-cleft and soappearing twice 
as many, each branch crowned with a stigma. 
FRUIT a many-seeded capsule, opening from the 
top half way down by the same number of valves 
as there are carpets. 
ELOWERS growing in terminal clusters. sometimes 
spi he -like, usually coiledupinbud,onlong Leafless 
stalks from the root (scapes), rarely solitary. 
LEAVES usually all growing from the root (radical;, on 
tong stalks, in a rosette, the upper side covered with short 
gland-tipped hairs, which send out a sticky fluid glisten- 
ing like dew in the sun, this adheres to any fly that alights 
and prevents its escape, while the long gland-dipped 
hairs on the margin slowly close down over the victim, 
which is digested by the plant. 
DISTINGUISHED EY the 5 sepals, 5 petals and 5 stamens, 
which are inserted below the seedcase (ovary ), by the 
capsular fruit, and above all by the peculiar leaves 
with gland-tipped hairs. These plants 
are only found on boggy land. 
sepals 
♦ 
stamens 
pistil 
fruit 
petal 
farts of the Roundieaved Sundew. 
