ABSTRACT

This chapter examines six species of Drosera, some of them inhabitants of distant countries, chiefly for the sake of ascertaining whether they caught insects. This seemed the more necessary as the leaves of some of the species differ to an extraordinary degree in shape from the rounded ones of Drosera rotundifolia. Drosera anglica. Mrs Treat has given an excellent account in The American Naturalist, of Drosera longifolia, of Droscera rotundifolia and filiformis. Drosera intermedia. This species is quite as common in some parts of England as Drosera rotundifolia. It differs from Drosera anglica, only in their smaller size, and in their tips being generally a little reflexed. Drosera capensis. This species, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, was sent to the author by Dr Hooker. The leaves are elongated, slightly concave along the middle and taper towards the apex, which is bluntly pointed and reflexed. Australian species, Drosera heterophylla is remarkable from its peculiarly shaped leaves.