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atmosphere. During the night this hd sinks down and 

 hermetically closes the little vase, which then fills with 

 limpid water exhaled by its walls. During the day the 



i .'I is." 





233, Pitcher-plant — Nepenthes distillatoria (Linnjeus). 



lid is raised and the fluid evaporates more or less completely. 

 The beneficent nepenthe has often quenched the thirst of 

 the Indian lost in his burning deserts. 



In the marshy forests of Southern America Providence 



