VENUS' S FLY-TRAP. 



genera to which we have drawn attention, and of those 

 the true Sundews (Drosera) and Venus's Fly-trap 

 (JDionaea) are the most important. Of the true Sun- 

 dews there are no less than one hundred species, 

 "which range in the Old World from the Arctic 

 regions to Southern India, to the Cape of Good 

 Hope, Madagascar, and Australia; and in the New 

 World from Canada to Terra del Fuego." There is 

 every reason to suppose that the same habits, and 

 carnivorous propensities, are common to all, and that, 

 in all this wide range, these humble little bog plants 

 are ever exposing their glittering tentacles to the sun, 

 and luring myriads of insects to their destruction. 



Bright and glorious is that revelation, 

 Written all over this great world of ours ; 



Making evident our own creation, 

 In these stars of earth — these golden flowers. , 



