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A TEXTBOOK OF THEORETICAL BOTANY 



Fig. 1589. — Dionaea miiscipida. Venus' Fly Trap. 

 Cultivated plant with trap leaves open. Kew 

 Gardens. Photograph supplied by Picture Post 

 library. 



mentioned, is considered also to be closely allied to the Parietales, in which 

 it is sometimes placed. The family may therefore be regarded as a link 

 between the Aristolochiales on the one hand and the Parietales and Rosales 

 on the other, and hence quite apart from its importance from a bionomic 

 standpoint it is also interesting phylogenetically. 



Fig. 1590. — Droseiii binatti C'ulti\ated plants with long 

 forked leaves beset with large, adhesive, glandular 

 hairs. Kew Gardens. 



