410 PENTANDRIA. HEXAGYNIA. Drosera. 
E.) When cultivated; the stamens are often seven,, or more, the germens 
ten ; seeds ten ; attached to a dry hairy receptacle. (A small, glaucous 
plant; by no means so hairy as to justify the name of Silver-weed , which 
more properly belongs to Potentilla anserina, though erroneously adopted 
in our preceding Editions. 
Procumbent Sibbaldia. E.) Mountains of Scotland. North side of 
Ben Lomond, three-fourths of the way up the mountain, plentiful. On 
Ben Mor, sparingly. Mr. Brown. (Ben Lawers and Ben-y-Gloe. Mr. 
Winch. E.) P. July—Aug.* * * § 
HEXAGYNIA. 
DROSERA .f {Cal. five-cleft: Pet. five : Caps, one-celled, 
three to five-valved, many-seeded. E.)J 
D. rotunjdifo'lia. (Leaves radical, nearly orbicular, on hairy foot¬ 
stalks, spreading: flower-stalk bearing a simple raceme. E.) 
{Hook. FI Lond. 189.— E. Bot. 8^7 .—FI. Dan . 1028. E.)— Sheldr. 39— 
Lob. Obs. 472. 2—Ger. Em. 1556. 1 —Park. 1052. 1. b. c.—Pet. 63. 10— 
Blackw. 432— Thai. 9. 1— J. B. iii. 761. 2— Barr. 251. 1— Trag. 529. 3 
— Lonic. 222. 2— Ger. 1556. 1. 
Capsules three-valved. Summits club-shaped. Stamens shorter than the 
petals. Petals inversely-egg-shaped. Flowers on fruit-stalks, upright. 
Leaves concave, covered on the upper surface and fringed with viscous 
red hairs. Flower-stalks few, upright, two or three inches high, cylin¬ 
drical, smooth. Bunch terminate, most frequently solitary, revolute 
when young, simple. FI. Brit. Blossom white, small. ( Petals and sta¬ 
mens invariably five. Plant turns black in drying: sometimes has been 
observed to acquire a stem. E.) 
Round-leaved Sun-dew. Red-rot. (Welsh: Toddaidd rudd; 
Tawddrudd crynddail. Gaelic : Lusna-fearnaich. E.) Mossy bogs, not 
unfrequent. Malvern Chase, on the side of the rivulet flowing from the 
Spa. Mr. Ballard. (About Allerton Hall, near Liverpool. Mr. Shep¬ 
herd. Coleshill bog and pool. Purton. In the bogs of Bin’s-pond, Sel- 
borne. White’s Nat. Hist. In Anglesey, as also D. longifolia. Welsh. 
Bot. Birmingham Heath: since drained. E.) P. July—Aug.§ 
* (Whole plant astringent, like others of the same tribe. Smith. E.) 
+ (From Spocos, dew ; limpid drops resting on pedicles borne by the leaves. E.) 
f (Dr. Hull, whose frequent opportunities of examining the different species of Drosera 
renders his testimony particularly valuable, remarks—“ The number of valves corresponds 
with the number of pairs of pistils, being three when the pistils are six, four when they are 
eight, never five, (in British plants) as stated by Linnaeus.” For which reason Hudson 
first removed the genus from Pentagynia: and Hull further observes, “ In no one instance 
have I found five pistils, the prevailing number is six; and we not unfrequently find eight, 
not more frequently in AnglicaWx&o in longifolia, but rather on the contrary : in rotundi- 
foiia never eight. E.) 
§ The whole plant is acrid, and sufficiently caustic to erode the skin ; but some ladies 
mix the juice with milk, so as to make it an innocent and safe application to remove 
freckles and sunburn. The juice that exudes from it unmixed will destroy warts and corns. 
The plant has the same effect upon milk as, Pinguicula vulgaris; and, like that too, is 
