t A. J. Wallis. 

 FIG. 133. VENUS' FLY-TRAP (Dioncea muscipula). 



The first known of these insectivorous plants. Unlike the slow-moving tentacles of Drosera, the two lobes of the leaf 



close with a snap the moment an insect touches one of the three spikes in the centre of a lobe. When the leaf is 



closed, the spines on the margins interlock like the teeth of a rabbit-gin. NORTH CAROLINA, U.S.A. 



