. A textbook of botany for colleges and universities ... Botany. 386 PHYSIOLOGY between saprophytes in their use of offered foods â differences which at present are quite inexphcable. A classification of saprophytes accord- ing to the sort of food on which they thrive best has been made; but this expresses only in a summary way our very imperfect knowledge of their nutrition. Insectivorous plants. â Besides the ordinary parasites and sapro- phytes, there are a few rather isolated cases of green seed plants which. Fig. 657. ⢠A rosette of leaves of Venus's flytrap {Dionaca muscipula) seen from
. A textbook of botany for colleges and universities ... Botany. 386 PHYSIOLOGY between saprophytes in their use of offered foods â differences which at present are quite inexphcable. A classification of saprophytes accord- ing to the sort of food on which they thrive best has been made; but this expresses only in a summary way our very imperfect knowledge of their nutrition. Insectivorous plants. â Besides the ordinary parasites and sapro- phytes, there are a few rather isolated cases of green seed plants which. Fig. 657. ⢠A rosette of leaves of Venus's flytrap {Dionaca muscipula) seen from above. â From a photograph by G. W. Oliver. have special apparatus for capturing small animals and digesting them. Some are submersed water plants, some grow on land. They are col- lectively known as insectivorous or carnivorous plants, but the methods of capture are quite diverse. Pitcher plants. â â The pitcher plants, Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Nepen- thes (fig. 656), and Cephalolus, have part or all of the leaf trumpet-like, pitcher-like, or cuplike, holding more or less water. The sides have stiff downward-pointing hairs, slippery areas of treacherous footing, decep-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928; Barnes, Charles Reid, 1858-1910, joint author; Cowles, Henry Chandler, 1869- joint author. New York, Cincinnati [etc] American book company
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