No, 48. det 
DIONÆA MUSCIPULA. — 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Among the astonishing works of creation, 
there are some things so surprising that a 
bare description of them, without producing * 
the reality, would be thought by every one a 
mere fiction, and never could be credited. 
Such is our present subject ; and, in our 
opinion, the whole vegetable world does not 
include a more curious, we may say a more 
wonderful plant. The form of the leaf is 
most extraordinary; and when we add tbe 
property which it possesses of closing the 
moment it is touched, and thus imprisoning 
whatever insect may have obtruded itself 
within its fangs, we confess ourselves lost in 
admiration. E 
It is fognd i in the swamps of pena and 
in his co 
