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dazzling liglit coming in tlirougli the windows and loses siglit of the 

 door in the floor by which he entered. 



In his eagerness to escape he flies upwards, bumping his stupid 

 head againt the roof, and plunging downward into the tube, he strug- 

 gles to rise again, but countless stiff bristles pointing downwards inter- 

 cept his progress and prick his body with every movement. At last in 

 an exhausted state he drops to the bottom of the tube, where there is a 

 small pool of digestive juices which the plant secretes, and by which it 

 obtains nourishment from the bodies of hapless insects. Even wasps, 

 butterflies and grasshoppers sometimes fall victims to the plant's vora- 

 cious appetite. William S. Rice. 



Manheim, Pa. 



A RARE FREAK OF THE TRILLIUM. 

 The readers of The Plant Woeld may be interested in a short de- 

 scription of a somewhat unique form of the T. sessile which was col- 

 lected last spring. Instead of one stem there were three starting from 



