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(4) A Plant which consumes Solid Organic Food. The sundew 

 (Drosera) and the pitcher plant (Nepenthes) are insectivorous 

 plants which digest and absorb the products of insects that fall 

 on to the leaf or into the pitcher (a modified part of the leaf). 

 This is a character not possessed by most plants, but it serves 

 to demonstrate the common powers of plant and animal proto- 

 plasm. In other respects the sundew and the pitcher plant are 

 ordinary flowering plants. 



