Order XVII
DROSERACEÆ.
The order of sun-dews is a small group of plants, natives of marshes or inundated grounds in all the temperate parts of the world. The species are very remarkable for the abundance of glandular hairs with which all the parts of the foliage are covered. Only two species are in any degree frutescent. The young leaves are always rolled up in the circinate manner, so remarkable in ferns. Their medicinal properties appear to be trifling: the leaves have the power of curdling milk. 702 Drósera W. 1009 Dionæ'a W.