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THE STOKY OP THE PLANTS. 



down, eating away at the sticky sweet- stuff as 

 they go, till they reach the bottom and the 

 hungry water, when they fall in by hundreds, 



FIG. 11. AN AUSTRALIAN PITCHER PLANT WHICH 



EATS INSECTS. 



and are drowned and digested. I have found 

 these plants often by the sides of Canadian bogs, 

 with a whole seething mass of festering and 



