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serve as meat for the plant. About twenty-four hours 

 later, if it is a quite small insect, the leaf uncurls and 

 is ready for another victim, though digestion often 

 takes much longer. 



DROSERA ROTUNDiFOLiA {Round-haved Sundew). 



A tiny scrap of meat placed there will be treated in 

 a like manner, taken captive, well soused in juice, and 

 gradually disposed of. Midges, ants, beetles, and small 

 butterflies, are perhaps the commonest items of Sundew 

 fare, though, as we have seen, it seems to like variety. 



