412 PENTANDRIA. HEXAGYNIA. Drosf.ra. 
frequent. Mr. Woodward. Knutsford Moor, Cheshire. Mr. Aikin. Along 
with D. anglica in Thorn Moor, Yorkshire; the latter species is nearly 
twice as large as the former. Mr. Robson. (On Brigstear Moss, near 
Kendal, growing to twice and thrice the size they do about London. 
Curtis. About Allerton Hall, near Liverpool. Mr. Shepherd. Marsh 
between Glasgow and Paisley. Hopkirk, in Hook. Scot. Keswick and 
Culgaith Moor, Cumberland, rare. Hutchinson. In the bogs of Bin’s- 
pond, Selborne. White’s Nat. Hist. E.) P. July Aug. 
D. An'glica. (Leaves radical, oblongo-spathulate, obtuse, erect, taper¬ 
ing down into long, naked foot-stalks: flower-stalks bearing a 
simple raceme: styles eight, caps, four-valved. E.) 
Dicks. II. S. —( E. Bot. 869. E.)— H. Ox. xv. 4, row l, Jig. the last — Pet. 63. 
12—Park 3 1052. 2. 
(The chief distinction seems to be the narrowness of the leaves, which Prof. 
Hooker observes, renders it much more deserving the name of longifolia 
than the last species. Number of parts of the flower varying from five 
to six; as is most usual, to eight. Hook. Nearly twice the size of the 
last. Petals and stamens usually eight. Sm. E.) 
Great Sun-dew. Boggy ground in the northern counties; also in Devon¬ 
shire, Hants, and Norfolk. In a marsh on a heath near Holmes Chapel, 
Cheshire. Mr. Hunter. (On Chat Moss, Lancashire. Mr. Shepherd. Roy- 
don Fen, near Diss, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. On a bog half a mile 
from Wareham, towards Sandford Bridge. Pulteney. With the preced¬ 
ing species in bogs at Prestwick Carr, Northumberland. Mr. Winch. 
With the preceding, and near Talkin Tarn, and Unity Farm, Brampton, 
Cumberland. Hutchinson. Kirkconnel Moss, six miles from Dumfries. 
Maughan, in Hook. Scot. E.) P. July—Aug.* 
* Few persons can have observed the Drosera in its native bogs, without remarking 
some of the leaves doubled up ; but the cause of this, I believe, was first ascertained in this 
kingdom by the ingenious Mr. Whately, an eminent surgeon in London. In the month of 
August, 1780, that gentleman being on a visit in Derbyshire, and gathering some specimens 
of Drosera , examined some of these folded leaves, and finding a dead insect in each, was 
prompted to irritate the surface of other leaves, by touching them with a pin. The effect 
was as he expected, a suddpn contraction of the leaf upon the pin. He communicated this 
curious fact tome; and though the experiment has since failed in my hands, I am satisfied 
he saw what he described. His friend, Mr Gardom, a Derbyshire Botanist, who accompanied 
him at the moment of this discovery, has since written me the following account. 
“ In August, 1780, examining the Drosera , in company with Mr. Whately, on his 
inspecting some of the contracted leaves, we observed a small insect or fiy very closely 
imprisoned therein, which occasioned some astonishment, to me at least, how it happened 
to get into that confined situation. Afterwards, on Mr. Whately’s centrically pressing 
with a pin other leaves, yet in their natural and expanded form, we observed a remarkable 
sudden and elastic spring of the leaves, so as to become inverted upwards, and as it were 
encircling the pin, which evidently showed the method by which the fly came into its 
embarrassing situation. This experiment was renewed repeatedly, and with the same effect, 
so that Mr. Whately and myself are both certain of the fact.” 
Two or three years after Mr. Whately had sent me an account of his discovery, I was 
much pleased to find the following account of the Drosera in a German author, which, 
1 hough it differs in some respects from the observations of Mr. Whately and Mr. Gardom, 
upon the whole tends further to illustrate the singular properties of these curious plants. 
“ July, 1779. D. rotundifolia and D. longifolia. I remarked that many leaves were 
folded together from the point towards the base, and that all the hairs were bent like a bow, 
but there was no apparent change on the leaf-stalk. Upon opening these leaves I found in 
each a dead insect. Hence I imagined that this plant, which has some resemblance to the 
Diozuea muscipula , might also possess a similar moving power. 
