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and entire. The pitchers, especially those of S. purpurea, are generally found partly filled with water and dead flies, with 

 other small insects. Whether the water is secreted by the leaf itself, or caught from the rain, is still undetermined. 

 The point might readily be ascertained by proper observations, made especially upon S. psittacina, the pitchers of which 

 are so protected by the hood that the fluid they contain (if any) can hardly be supposed to have entered by the orifice. 



That the water in the open 

 secreted by the internal hairs, 

 suppose, would appear from 

 are empty, and that during 

 those of the previous season, 

 species very long and deli- 

 which alone or principally 

 " But, however derived, 

 flies and other insects, which 

 adapted to catch and retain. 



pitchers of S. purpurea is not 

 as Dr. Lindley and Mr. Bentham 

 the fact that the younger leaves 

 the spring and summer, it is 

 from which these hairs (in this 

 cate) have mostly disappeared, 

 are found to contain water, 

 this water serves to drown the 

 these leaves are admirably 

 According to Elliot and others, 



there is a saccharine exudation at the throat of the Southern species which attracts insects ; but this is not noticeable in 

 8. purpurea. Immediately below the surface it is very smooth and polished, and still lower it is beset with sharp hairs, 

 in most species long and slender, or else like those of the hood (in S. Drummondii extremely short and close), but in all 



