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PLANT LIFE. 



468. 2. By adhesive surfaces. — Animals are also cap- 

 tured by adhesive surfaces. These surfaces are covered by a 



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Fig. 383. — A bladderwort {Utricularia Grafiana), showing an aerial flower stalk 

 carrying an open flower and a second one above from which the corolla lias fallen. 

 Some stems bear numerous, finely branched leaves, /■, and others the large bladders, 

 />'. See fig. 384. A shoot of a' smaller species is shown at a, with bladders and 

 leu is on same stem. About two-thirds natural size.— After Kerner. 



sticky fluid secreted by numerous glandular hairs, and upon 

 these many small insects may be found dead. In many 



