_Bog-herbs, mostly glandular-haired, with regular hypogynous flowers, pentamerous and withering-persistent calyx, corolla, and stamens, the anthers fixed by the middle and turned outward, and a 1-celled capsule with twice as many styles or stigmas as there are parietal placentæ._--Calyx imbricated. Petals convolute. Seeds numerous, anatropous, with a short and minute embryo at the base of the albumen.--Leaves circinate in the bud, i.e., rolled up from the apex to the base as in Ferns. A small family of insectivorous plants. 1. DRÓSERA, L. SUNDEW. Stamens 5. Styles 3, or sometimes 5, deeply 2-parted so that they are taken for 6 or 10, slender, stigmatose above on the inner face. Capsule 3- (rarely 5-) valved; the valves bearing the numerous seeds on their middle for the whole length.--Low perennials or biennials; the leaves clothed with reddish gland-bearing bristles, in our species all in a tuft at the base; the naked scape bearing the flowers in a 1-sided raceme-like inflorescence, which nods at the undeveloped apex, so that the fresh-blown flower (which opens only in sunshine) is always highest. The plants yield a purple stain to paper. (The glands of the leaves exude drops of a clear glutinous fluid, glittering like dew-drops, whence the name, from δροσερός, _dewy_.) 1. D. rotundifòlia, L. (ROUND-LEAVED SUNDEW.) _Leaves orbicular_, abruptly narrowed into the _spreading hairy petioles_; seeds spindle-shaped, the coat loose and chaff-like; flowers white, the parts sometimes in sixes.--Peat-bogs, Lab. to Minn., Ind., and southward; common. July, Aug. (Eu.) 2. D. intermèdia, Hayne, var. Americàna, DC. _Leaves spatulate-oblong_, tapering into the long rather _erect naked petioles_; seeds oblong, with a rough close coat; flowers white. (D. longifolia, _Gray_, Manual.)--Bogs, with the same range but less common. June--Aug.--Plant raised on its prolonged caudex when growing in water. (Eu.) 3. D. lineàris, Goldie. (SLENDER SUNDEW.) _Leaves linear_, obtuse, the blade (2--3´ long, scarcely 2´´ wide) _on naked erect petioles_ about the same length; seeds oblong, with a smooth and perfectly close coat; flowers white.--Shore of L. Superior, Mich., and Minn. 4. D. filifórmis, Raf. (THREAD-LEAVED SUNDEW.) _Leaves very long and filiform_, erect, with no distinction between blade and stalk; seeds spindle-shaped; flowers numerous, purple rose-color (½´ broad).--Wet sand, near the coast, Mass. to N. J. and Fla. * * * * * DIONÆ̀A MUSCÍPULA, Ellis, the VENUS'S FLY-TRAP,--so noted for the extraordinary irritability of its leaves, closing quickly at the touch,--is a native of the sandy savannas of the eastern part of N. C. It differs in several respects from the character of the order given above; the stamens being 15, the styles united into one, and the seeds all at the base of the pod. ORDER 38. HAMAMELÍDEÆ. (WITCH-HAZEL FAMILY.)