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opening tufts of stout hair-like appendages are frequently 

 borne (Fig. 40). 



The bladder serves for the capture of animals — small 



Fig. 40. — Bladderworts : i, Utricularia Jamesoniana, an epiphytic 

 species with two types of foliage leaf, the narrower bearing bladders. 

 Nat. size. (After Oliver.) 2, Section through bladder of U. reniformis. 

 X 120. (After Luetzelburg.) 



water crustaceans, such as Cypris and Daphnia, as well as 

 rotifers, and infusoria. It was long thought that the 

 mechanism was passive, as in an old-fashioned mouse trap, 



