DION^A MUSCIPULA, 



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VENUS's FLY-TRAP. 



Generic Character. 



Calyx five-leaved. 



Corolla five-petaled. 



Germen depreffed and crenated. 



Stigma fpreading and fimbriated. 



Specific Character. 

 DION^EA with ciliated leaves. 



Various are the methods by which animals of a car- 

 nivorous nature obtain their deftined prey; fome 

 feizing the victim with refiftlefs violence, or hunting 

 it down till it is exhaufted with fatigue, or inflicting a 

 deadly poifon by their bite, and thus fecuring it beyond 

 all poflibility of efcape, and afterwards fwallowing it at 

 leifure : others exerting every artifice of infidious inge- 

 nuity, and entrapping the unwary animal into their 

 fnares. It is not only amongft creatures of the larger 

 kind that this predacious difpolition prevails, but even 

 throughout many of the fmalleft tribes of nature ; and 

 particularly amongft infe&s, of which feveral kinds 

 might be adduced which occafionally prey even on 

 their own fpecies. 



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