INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS. 



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while quite different from these plants, it is more 

 nearly related to them than to any others, so that 

 botanists, not knowing what else to do with* it, 



FIG. 49. VENUS'S FLYTRAP (Dionaea muscipula). (" Pflanzenleben.") 



have placed it here. It is found only in the east- 

 ern part of North Carolina and in the adjacent 

 parts of South Carolina. It grows in sandy bogs 

 in the low Pine-barrens. The illustration (Fig. 49), 



