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the lobes, it will grasp it full as fast as if it was 

 an insect. The plant is one of the monogynia 

 order, in the decandria class. It grows in 

 America, in about thirty-five degrees north lati- 

 tude, in wet shady places, and flowers in July 

 and August. The largest leaves are about three 

 inches long, and an inch and a half across the 

 lobes: the glands of those exposed to the sun 

 are of a beautiful red colour ; but those in the 

 shade are pale and inclining to green. The 

 roots are squamous, sending forth but few 

 fibres, and are perennial. The leaves are nu- 

 merous, inclining to bend downwards, and are 

 placed in a circular order; they are jointed and 

 succulent; the lower joint, which is a kind of 

 stalk, is flat, longish, two-edged, and inclining 

 to heart-shaped. In some varieties they are 

 serrated on the edges near the top. The upper 

 joint consists of two lobes; each lobe is of a 

 semi-oval form, with the margins furnished with 

 stiff hairs like eye-brows, which embrace, or 

 lock in each other when they close : this they do 

 when they are inwardly irritated. The upper 

 surfaces of these lobes are covered with small 

 red glands; each of which appears, when highly 

 magnified, like a compressed arbutus berry. 



