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PREDA TOR Y PLANTS. 



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with a small knob or gland. These glands secrete a 

 viscid fluid, which, glistening in the sun, add not a 

 little to the general prettiness of the plant. The whole 



FIG. 73. 



leaf bears somewhat the appearance of a flower, and 

 there is little doubt that insects often come to it under 

 that idea, but the delusion proves fatal. Mere con- 

 tact with the sticky fluid is sufficient temporarily to 



