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folia is found on Hampstead Heath, and I have seen it on Weybridge 

 Common ; but the way to get it with least 

 trouble is to watch Covent Garden Market, as 

 some rustic is sure, during the season, to bring for 

 sale bundles of these plants. It is one of the 

 curious fly-catching species ; the hairy leaf is covered 

 with some adhesive substance, on which any insect 

 which may venture to settle, is entrapped. No 

 doubt this fly-catching apparatus performs a part 

 in the economy of the plant, but the philosophical 

 explanation is yet wanting ; I respect these singular 



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plants, 1 admire them, but 1 wonder at them. 

 Towards the edge of the water, the Bog Bean (Menyanthcs tri- 

 foliata, fig. 746) is planted, which, although it does not grow wild 

 in my garden, is found in one of the fields in my occupation in the 

 neighbourhood. 



FIG. 745. Drosera rotund]- 



FIG. 746. -Bog Bean. 



FIG. 747. Calla palustris. 



FIG. 748. Hippuris vulgaris 



In the same artificial swamp we have the Calla palustris (fig. 747) 

 and the Hippuris vnlgaris (fig. 748). The former plant is rather tender ; 

 but the latter is very interesting and grows very fast, but is trouble- 

 some on account of its spreading properties. 



The above list gives but a faint idea of all the flowers I cultivate 

 in my alpineries, but I am always losing some plants and adding 

 others. If I take a journey, it is seldom that I do not add one plant. 



