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INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS. 



handsome plant ; both its leaf and flower are curi- 

 ous and beautiful. 



On large plants the leaves are from six to eight 



FIG. 51. PITCHER-PLANT (Sarracenia purpurea). (" Pflanzenleben.") 



inches in length, and the flower-scape is a foot or 

 more in height, bearing at the top a single, large, 

 dark, purple flower. The singular fiddle-shaped 



