The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . Insects are caught, and per- climbing; and this bears a pitcher vith a digested, in the pitcher. 173. Leaves as Fly-traps. Insects arecaught in another way, and more expertly,by the most extraordinary of all the plantsof this country, the Dionsea or Venuss Fly-trap, which grows in the sandy bogs aroundWilmington, North Carolina. Here () each leaf bears at its summit an appen- jdage which opens and shuts, in shape some-thing like a steel-trap, and operating muchlike one. For when open, no sooner doesa fly alight on its surfa
The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . Insects are caught, and per- climbing; and this bears a pitcher vith a digested, in the pitcher. 173. Leaves as Fly-traps. Insects arecaught in another way, and more expertly,by the most extraordinary of all the plantsof this country, the Dionsea or Venuss Fly-trap, which grows in the sandy bogs aroundWilmington, North Carolina. Here () each leaf bears at its summit an appen- jdage which opens and shuts, in shape some-thing like a steel-trap, and operating muchlike one. For when open, no sooner doesa fly alight on its surface, and brush againstany one of the two or three bristles that growthere, than the trap suddenly closes, captur-ing the intruder. If the fly escapes, the trapsoon slowly opens, and is ready for anothercapture. When retained, the insect is aftera time moistened by a secretion from mi-nute glands of the inner surface, and isdigested. In the various species of Drosera or Sundew, insects are caught Fio. 174. Leaf of Sarracenia purpurea, entire, and anoth
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