TYPICS OF INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS 



I. Venus Fly-trap (Dionaa muscifula) of the Carolinas: a fly which has touched one of the sensitive hairs on the upper surface of 

 the leaf is caught by the two halves of the blade snapping together. 2. A true Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes phyllamphora) of Cochin-C hina : 

 in the fluid contained in the pitchers, which are transformed leaf-tips, insects are drowned and digested. 3. An American Pitcher Plant 

 (Serriueniaflara): the leaves form pitchers containing' fluid, in which insects are drowned. .(. Butterwort (1'inguicula rulgaris), a Brit- 

 ish moorland plant which catches flies in the st irky sirivtion of elands on the leaf. 5. A South African Sundew (Drasrra cistiflora) with 

 :n. 6. The Common Sundew of Britain (Drosera rotitmlititliti) with a rosette of basal leaves. The Sundews catch 

 insects in the sticky secretion of the leaf glands or tentacles, which then fold over their prey. The plants are artificially grouped. 



