46 HOW CERTAIN PLANTS CAPTURK INSECTS. 



recounted in these chapters are not mere prodigies, wholly out of the general 

 order of Nature, but belong to the order of Nature, and indeed are hardly dif- 

 ferent in kind from, or really more wonderful than, the doings of many of the 

 commonest plants, which, until our special attention is called to them, ordinarily 

 pass unregarded. 



Pig. 40. Venus's Flytrap : Dionsea. 



