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FREAKS OF PLANT LIFE. 



with deflexed rigid hairs, which converge towards the 

 axis of the cavity ; so that an insect, if once amongst 

 them, is effectually detained, and its struggles have no 



Fig- 7- — Pitchers of Sarracenia variolaris, reduced, 

 •other result than to wedge it lower and more firmly 

 in the pitcher. 1 



1 "Gardener's Chronicle," September 5, 1874, p. 293. 



