PITCHER PLANT FAMILY 185 
4. What else does the pitcher contain? 
Do the hairs on the mouth of the pitcher all 
point in the same direction? 
6. Would it be easy for an insect which had fallen 
into the water in the pitcher to crawl out 
again? 5 
7. Have you ever seen the pitcher plant in blos- 
som? 
8. Were any bumble-bees visiting the blossoms? 
9. Did you find any insects feeding upon the 
blossoms ? 7 
10. Were there any white larve living in the liquid 
which the pitchers contain? If so, they 
are the larve of flies that feed upon the 
insects caught by the pitchers. 
or 
(B) Write a short discussion for your wild flower 
booklet with some such title as one of these: 
A Vegetable Pitcher and What it Held; Nature’s 
Fly Trap; A Wonderful Leaf; The Pitcher 
Plant and Its Blossoms. 
(C) Make these drawings: A Pitcher Plant leaf, side 
view; A Pitcher Plant flower, side view; A 
longitudinal section of the leaf, showing the 
position of the water and the dead insects with- 
in the leaf. 
