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I have found these plants often by the sides of 

 Canadian bogs, with a whole seething mass of 

 festering and decaying insects fiUing up every 



Fig. II. — An Australian pitcher plant which eats insects. 



one of their murderous vases. Other pitcher- 

 plants are found in Australia (Fig. 11). 



The Nepenthes of the Malayan Archipelago is 

 a still more remarkable water-trap insect-eater, in 

 which the pitcher is formed by a curious jug-like 



