FREAKS OF PLANT LIFE 



CHAPTER VI. 



OTHER CARNIVOROUS PLANTS. 



It is by no means unusual for phenomena of the kind 

 to which the preceding chapters have been devoted, 

 to manifest themselves in a modified form in other 

 organisms. These collateral, or supplementary 

 instances, although of but little moment of them- 

 selves, are valuable when taken in their relationship 

 to more complete and perfect examples. In plants 

 to which we shall have occasion to refer, some of the 

 phenomena already described, in association with 

 insectivorous plants, will be repeated, but less 

 intensified ; so that such examples will hold an 

 intermediate position between the sundews and 

 plants in which no carnivorous propensities have 

 been traced. As might be expected, some of these 

 supplementary plants approach so closely that they 

 cannot be separated from veritable carnivorous 

 plants, whilst others recede so much, perhaps, as only 

 to be strongly suspected of such proclivities. 



The Butterworts are little bog-loving plants, mostly 

 in hilly or mountainous districts, with pale green 

 leaves spreading out like a rosette, and lying flat on 



