SOME PLANTS WHICH 1LXTPAP /.\>7v7.7>. 



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humor it into healthy activity. It is one of our rarest American 

 plants, being found only in the hogs of a restricted area on the coast 

 of North Carolina. 



In the Venus' fly-trap, as in the East Indian pitcher-plant, only 

 a portion of the leaf has heen modified for insect capture, — a rounded 

 terminal portion cut off from the leaf proper by a constriction, and 

 hinged along its midrib so as to be capable of closing like a book. On 

 this portion, the 'trap,' are three sorts of hairs essential to its operation 



Fig. 10. The Sun-dew in Blossom, ghowikg in a Hummock of Peat-mos.«. 



— the first long and stout, fringing the edges of the two lobes, the 

 second but six in number, three in the center of each lobe, and the 

 third minute, innumerable ones covering the entire inner surface of 

 each lobe. 



If an insect alighting on a fly-trap leaf chances to touch any one 



