THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



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pitcher as they are in the trumpet, for aUhough the entrance 

 is not closed, the pitchers are always partly filled with water 

 and having fallen into this, they are unable to fly out with wet 

 wings. Thus we see how perfectly everything is planned in 

 nature's workshop. No matter how odd a flower or leaf may 

 be, there is reason for its being just as it is. 



Large drooping yellow flowers on long stems. 



The species with open pitchers is always found in wet 

 mossy bogs in a cooler climate, and there is little chance of the 

 pitchers ever becoming dry. The trumpets of the South, on the 

 contrary, are found in rather dry sandy places in a much hot- 

 ter, dryer climate, where rainwater if collected in the leaves, 



