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THE STORY OF 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 



