ACCORDING TO SEASON 



Bladder 

 wort 



Pipewort 



Mossy 

 hummocks 



as it is another of the insect-eating group. Its 

 bladders are so small as to give no hint of the 

 death-traps that they are, but a careful look into 

 their interiors will discover the remains of insects 

 lured to their destruction as cleverly and as 

 surely as are the victims of the sundew. Each 

 bladder is furnished with a door which opens 

 inward. It is supposed that insects when pur- 

 sued by enemies seek its shelter, rushing into 

 involuntary imprisonment, as the door by which 

 they entered will not open outward. They die 

 from starvation or suffocation, and specially 

 adapted cells of the bladder absorb the particles 

 of their decomposed bodies. 



Close to the bladderwort, where the pools widen 

 into miniature lakes, a multitude of slender stems 

 tipped with white knobs rise from the water. 

 These white-knobbed stems belong to the seven- 

 angled pipewort, a curious little plant that bears 

 its minute blossoms closely clustered in the knobs 

 which first attracted our attention. Its thread- 

 like leaves, tufted at the base of the stem, are 

 partly out of sight under the water. 



All about us are mossy hummocks where cran- 

 berry and swamp blackberry vines interlace their 

 spreading strands; where the marsh shield-fern 

 and the sensitive fern contend for standing-room ; 

 where the aromatic leaves of the bayberry bask 



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