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FREAKS OF PLANT LIFE. 



are covered with curious hairs or tentacles, with 

 clubbed ends, which sparkle in the sun, as if they 

 bore on their extremity a minute dew-drop. These 

 leaves, and their curious appendages, are the objects 



Fig. i. — Round-leaved Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia. 



to which our attention must be confined, if we would 

 comprehend why the little sundew has been called a 

 " carnivorous plant." 



