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a sort of hood, which is the true leaf. Just within 
the mouth a sweet liquid is secreted which attracts 
insects. The interior walls are smooth and slippery, 
and at some distance from the top there is a fringe 
of long hairs, as in Darlingtonia. The insects find 
that descent is very easy, but the ascent most difficult. 
If they succeed in obtaining a foothold there is the 
Fic. 82. 
fringe of hairs to be surmounted, and this is usually a 
poser for them, if we may judge from the quantity of 
dead flies always to be found in these pitchers. The 
plant is found growing in the marshes of North 
America. 
The exquisite little plant shown at fig. 83 is the 
Australian Fly-trap (Cephalotus follicularis), a native 
of King George’s Sound. The pitchers are green, 
