Venns’s Flytrap, 
Dionea muscipula. Narurat Orver: Droseracee—Sundew Family. 
often found in colder climates, except in hothouse culture, this 
* perennial plant is rather delicate, but can be raised without 
difficulty if repotted each year and kept standing in a saucer 
<0. of water. The leaves have a peculiar retractile power, clos- 
Sy, ing whenever an insect lights on the surface, thereby holding 
it a prisoner within its embrace, only relaxing its hold when it has 
~ entirely withdrawn the nourishing properties from its victim. The 
flowers are white, being grouped in an umbel of from eight to ten 
“on a stalk about a foot high. It is called Dionwa from Dione, the 
mother of Venus; and muscipula, from the Latin, denotes fly-gates. 
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E sail along a rocky shore—the cliffs are gray and green, 
While in the sunfit depths below as lofty cliffs are seen. 
We float upon the waves of Life, with Death at either hand, 
And what is false and what is true we may not understand. 
—L. Bruce Moore. 
fexee wave of the desert, thou art less beguiling HY, I can smile, and murder while I smile; 
Than false beauty over the lighted hall shed: And cry content to that which grieves my 
” What but the smiles that have practic’d their smiling, And wet my cheek with artificial tears; [heart; 
Or honey words measured, and reckon’d as said. And frame my face to all occasions. 
—Miss Landon. —Shakespeare. 
E seem’d for dignity compos’d, and high exploit, 
But all was false and hollow. —Milton. 
OU’RE wrong; he was the mildest mannered HEIR friendship is a lurking snare, 
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat! [man Their honor but an idle breath; 
With such true breeding of a gentleman, Their smile, the smile that traitors wear; 
You never could divine his real thought. Their love is hate, their life is death. 
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