PRACTICAL WORK 35 



(4) A Plant which consumes Solid Organic Food. — The sundew 

 {Drosera) and the pitcher plant {Nepenthes) are insectivorous 

 plants which digest and absorb the products of insects that fall 

 on to the leaf or into the pitcher (a modified part of the leaf). 

 This is a character not possessed by most plants, but it serves 

 to demonstrate the common powers of plant and animal proto- 

 plasm. In other respects the sundew and the pitcher plant are 

 ordinary flowering plants. 



