REMARKABLE LEA VES. 



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a sort of hood, which is the true leaf. Just within 

 the mouth a sweet liquid is secreted which attracts 

 insects. The interior walls are smooth and slippery, 

 and at some distance from the top there is a fringe 

 of long hairs, as in Darlingtonia. The insects find 

 that descent is very easy, but the ascent most difficult. 

 If they succeed in obtaining a foothold there is the 



fringe of hairs to be surmounted, and this is usually a 

 poser for them, if we may judge from the quantity of 

 dead flies always to be found in these pitchers. The 

 plant is found growing in the marshes of North 

 America. 



The exquisite little plant shown at fig. 83 is the 

 Australian Fly-trap (Cephalotus follicularis), a native 

 of King George's Sound. The pitchers are green, 



