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and entire. The pitchers, especially those of S. purpurea^ are generally found partly filled with water and dead flies, with 
other small insects. Whether the water is secreted by the leaf itself, or caught from the rain, is still undetermined. 
The point might readily be ascertained by proper observations, made especially upon S. pnttacirva^ the pitchers of which 
are so protected by the hood that the fluid they contain (if any) can hardly be supposed to have entered by the orifice. 
That the water in the open 
secreted by the intertiftl hairs, 
suppose, would appeal' from 
pitchers of 51 pitvpurea is not 
Mr, 
are empty, and that during 
those of the previous season, 
species very long and deli- 
which alone or principally 
" But, however derived, 
flies and other insects, which 
adapted to catch and retain. 
the fact that the younger leaves 
the spring and summer, it is 
from which these hairs (in this 
cate) have mostly disappeared, 
are found to contain water, 
this water serves to drown the 
these leaves arc admirably 
According to Elliot and others, 
there is a saccharine exudation at the throat of the Southern species which attracts insects ; but this is not noticeable in 
S, pwpuncu Immediately below the surface it is very smooth and polished, and still lower it is beset with sharp hairs, 
in most species long and slender, or else like those of the hood (In S, Drummondii extremely short and close), but in all 
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