animals which may be caught. The SARRACENIACE^; are North American 

 marsh-plants (10 species) which have pitcher-like leaf-stalks, in the cavity of 

 which a fluid (with properties approaching those of gastric juice) is secreted,. 



FIG. 419. AUrovandia vesiculosa . A a plant (nat. size). B Leaf 

 (mag.); the blade is closed; the winged stalk is prolonged into 

 4-6 irritable bristles. 



and which bear at the apex a small, lid-like blade ; these leaf-stalks are tha 

 catching and digestive organs. Sarracenia, Darlingtonia. 



FIG. 420. Nepenthes (reduced). 



NEPENTHACE.E has only 1 genus, Nepenthes (the Pitcher-plant; about 35 

 species), especially found in tropical E. Asia; the majority are climbing shrubs. 

 The leaf -stalks are twining organs, and terminate either simply in a tendril, 

 or in addition to this, with a pitcher- shaped body (which in some species maybe 



