The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution; . For every animal that wishes to saveitself from a Cejyhalotus pitcher has threeobstacles to overcome: first, a circularridge projecting mside the pitcher; sec-ondly, a bit of wall thickly covered with little papillae, sharp, ridged, and pointed downward, the whole being comparableto a flax-comb; and, lastly, on the involute rim round the mouth of the pitcher,another fringe composed of hooked, decurved spines which bristle like an im-penetrable row of bayonets in front of such animals as may have surmountedthe
The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution; . For every animal that wishes to saveitself from a Cejyhalotus pitcher has threeobstacles to overcome: first, a circularridge projecting mside the pitcher; sec-ondly, a bit of wall thickly covered with little papillae, sharp, ridged, and pointed downward, the whole being comparableto a flax-comb; and, lastly, on the involute rim round the mouth of the pitcher,another fringe composed of hooked, decurved spines which bristle like an im-penetrable row of bayonets in front of such animals as may have surmountedthe other difficulties. The abundance of the booty found at the bottom of Cepha-lotus pitchers shows how efficiently these contrivances serve to prevent , for instance, sacrifice themselves recklessly in their pursuit of honey, andone often finds great numbers of them drowned in the liquid in the pitchers. Theprey is not in this case converted into a putrid liquor, but is partially dissolved bya secretion having an acid reaction. This secretion is separated out by special. Fig. 22.—Cephalotus follicularis. 132 PLANTS WITH TRAPS AND PITFALLS TO ENSNARE ANIMALS.
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