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N° of 
Species in 
N° Geperg. 
Growth. Species, Native of 
Britain. 
Corols five-petaled. 
28 S Aldrovanda 
h 
1 Italy, India 
289 Drosera* 
h 
8 India, Cape 
Brit. 3 
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Ii 
22 Alps, Austria, Virg. 
Brit. 5 
291 Maher nia 
s 
2 Cape 
292 Sibbaldia 
b 
3 Siberia 
Brit. 1 
ORDER Vf. POLYGYNIA; 
(many 
FEMALES.) 
293 Myosprusf 
h 
1 
Brit. 1 
294 Shefflera 
h 
1 
* Sundew (drosera) derives its name from small drops of a liquor like dewy 
hanging on its fringed leaves, (which are purple) and continuing in the hottest 
part of the day ? exposed to thespn. It is a very minute villous plant, usually grow¬ 
ing entangled with moss on peat bogs $ the leaves are curiously fringed with very 
numerous strong reddish hairs, terminated by small pellucid globules of viscous 
liquor, which occasion, by the reflection of the sun, that peculiar lustre from 
Which its name is derived: It is in these hairs that the essential properties of the 
plant reside. For if a small insect should fix itself on one of the leaves, these hairs 
immediately begin to close one by one ; the insect being held fast by the viscous" 
-juice of the smaller hairs, till the larger hairs, together with the edsres of the leaf, 
close in and imprison it 5 in which state the insect is killed, generally in less than 
fifteen minutes, by the operation of the acrimonious juice exuding from the ends 
©f the hairs. 
f The number of stamens in myosurus varies greatly ; it was formerly described 
as having five petals, but it was afterwards found they were five nectaries, and ar§ 
"now described as supb? awled, petal-form, Sy$. Veg? 14 th edif. 
