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referring also to Van Tieghem’s experiments, in which an artifi- 
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this. The difference is that they feed upon vegetable, not upon 
animal matter; upon matter assimilated by the plant itself, not 
upon matter further assimilated by an animal. Nor is the real 
As these subjects become matters of popular interest, the gross- 
est misapprehensions and mis-statements must be ex ted. In 
England, the Graphic leads off with a well-executed page of wood- 
cuts, swarming with flies and hornets, some of which are busy 
about the mouth of a nondescript Sarracenia, having a curiously 
lobed or scolloped lid. The letter-press describes Vepenthes and 
Cephalotus as having “lids which shat down upon their victims,” 
while Darlingtonia “ curls its leaf around them,” and so on. 
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Fellows is now a pointed to take charge of the publication of the 
ma 2 aa Society, the editorial care of which had 
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mendation of the council, were yet contested in a manner which 
