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liquid manure resulting from the putrescent captured 

 insects.. 



" 4. That the parasitic moth is a mere intruder, its 

 larva sharing the food obtained by the plant. 



" 5. That the fly (which also breeds in the pitchers) 

 has no other, connexion with the plant than that of 

 a destroyer, though its greatest injury is done after 

 the leaf has performed its most important functions. 

 Almost every plant has its peculiar insect enemy, 

 and Sarracenia, with all its dangers to insect life 

 generally, is no exception to the rule." l 



Another plant, 2 very similar to the Sarracenias, is 

 found at an elevation of 5,000 feet on the Sierra 

 Nevada of California. " It has pitchers of two forms ; 

 one, peculiar to the infant state of the plant, consists 

 of narrow, somewhat twisted trumpet-shaped tubes, 

 with very oblique open mouths, the dorsal lip of 

 which is drawn out into a long, slender, arching, 

 scarlet hood that hardly closes the mouth. The 

 slight twist in the tube causes these mouths to point 

 in various directions, and they entrap very small 

 insects only. Before arriving at a state of maturity 

 the plant bears much larger, nearly erect pitchers, 

 also twisted, with the lip produced into a large in- 

 flated hood that completely arches over a very small 

 entrance to the cavity of the pitcher. A singular 



1 "Science-Gossip," 1874, pp. 273, 5. - Darlingtonia. 



