. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. th Ericals in theh* general appearance. Aldrovanda, a water plant, inhabiting theditches in the South of Europe, is remarkable for its whorled, cellular, shell-like leaves. At the Cape of Good Hope, in South America, North America, New Holland, China,Europe, Madagascar, the East Indies, wherever there are marshes or morasses, theseplants are found. Drosophyllum lusitanicum giows on the barren sands of Portugal. The common Droseras are rather acid, slightly acrid, and according
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. th Ericals in theh* general appearance. Aldrovanda, a water plant, inhabiting theditches in the South of Europe, is remarkable for its whorled, cellular, shell-like leaves. At the Cape of Good Hope, in South America, North America, New Holland, China,Europe, Madagascar, the East Indies, wherever there are marshes or morasses, theseplants are found. Drosophyllum lusitanicum giows on the barren sands of Portugal. The common Droseras are rather acid, slightly acrid, and according to some, poison-ous to cattle. The Drosera communis of Brazil is said by A. de St. Hilaire to be poison-ous to sheep. Drosera lunata has viscid leaves ^^•ith glandular fringes, which close upon Fig. CCCII.—Dionsea muscipula. 1. its pistil; 2. a sectional view of it showing the placentae ; 3. aseed : 4. the same without its cnistaceous skin, and opened so as to show the emhryo. Fig. CCCIII.—Drosera longifolia. 1. a flower ; 2. a perpendicular section of the ovary ; 3. a perpen-dicular section of a seed. F F.
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