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gether, hold and bind the victims much more 

 effectually than the other species. The larger 

 the insect the more leaves it reaches and draws 

 around itself, until it is soon bathed in the sticky 

 secretion which closes the trachea or air-tubes, 

 when it speedily dies. 



Like the other species, it absorbs the nutritious 

 parts and lets the rest fall at the base of the 

 plant, where we can find a good share of the re- 

 mains of the prey it has slaughtered, especially of 

 the larger insects. Probably this debris is some- 

 thing of a fertilizer and helps to nourish the plant. 



I have observed two additional species of Sun- 

 dew in Florida : D. capillaris, which grows in 

 boggy ponds, and bears pale, rose-colored flowers, 

 and D. brevifolia, --a pretty little plant with 

 rather large white flowers, found in the damp 

 Pine-barrens. Both of these plants have the same 

 fly-catching habits. There is still another species, 

 the Slender Sundew (D. linearis), with which I am 

 not familiar. This grows about the shores of 

 Lake Superior. These are all of the Sundews, so 

 far as I know, in our country. 



The Venus' s Flytrap (Dioncea muscipula) is one 

 of the most singular and wonderful plants in the 

 world. It belongs to the Sundew family. But, 



