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The next picture (Fig. 156) shows you a little plant 
which is very common in our swamps,—so common 
22 that some of you ought to find it without 
rary difficulty next summer, and try upon it 
S\N = some experiments of your own. 
} fi It is called the “sundew.” This name 
has been given to it because in the sun- 
shine its leaves look as though wet with 
dew. But the pretty drops which sparkle 
se like dew do not seem so innocent when you 
all tS, know their object. You feel that they 
vps, are no more pleasing than is the bit of 
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——— When you see this plant growing 
in the swamp among the cranberry 
vines and the pink orchids, you 
admire its little white flowers, and its round red-haired 
leaves, and think it a pretty, harmless thing. But bend 
down and pluck it up, root and all, out of the wet, 
black earth. Carry it home with you, and, if you have 
a magnifying glass, examine one of its 
leaves. 
The: picture (Fig. 157) shows you a 
leaf much larger than it is in life. The 
red hairs look like pins.stuck in a 
cushion, and the head of each pin glis- 
tens with the drop that looks like dew. 
But the ants and flies do not take 
these drops for dew. They believe ees 
them to be the sweet nectar for which they long, and 
they climb or light upon the leaves in this belief. 
