The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution; . surface of the leaf at a lower level. All the soluble parts of its body are thendissolved by means of the secretion of these glands and are afterwards absorbed. The glands renew the drops of secretion of which they are despoiled withgreat rapidity. The quantity of acid liquid secreted is, in general, very great, sothat it is not surprising to find Drosophyllum covered at the same time withremains of besmeared dead bodies drained of their juices, and with still strugglinginsects which have recently alighted an
The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution; . surface of the leaf at a lower level. All the soluble parts of its body are thendissolved by means of the secretion of these glands and are afterwards absorbed. The glands renew the drops of secretion of which they are despoiled withgreat rapidity. The quantity of acid liquid secreted is, in general, very great, sothat it is not surprising to find Drosophyllum covered at the same time withremains of besmeared dead bodies drained of their juices, and with still strugglinginsects which have recently alighted and become clogged. The number of animalscaught by the leaves of a single plant is very great; and even people who are not CARNIVOROUS PLANTS WITH ADHESIVE APPARATUS. 155 otherwise interested in the vegetable world are impressed by the sight of a plantwith its leaves covered with a number of insects adhering to them as though theywere limed twigs. In the neighbourhood of Oporto, where Drosophyllum growsabundantly, the peasants use these plants instead of limed twigs, hanging them up.
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