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if not identically the same. That a plant and an 

 animal should pour forth the same, or nearly the same, 

 complex secretion, adapted for the same purpose of 

 digestion, is a new and wonderful fact in physiology. 

 But I shall have to recur to this subject in the 

 fifteenth chapter, in my concluding remarks on the 

 Droseraceae. 



