VENUS FLY-TRAP. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx of five leaves. 
Corolla of five oblong petals. 
Seed-vessel a single cell, containing many small seeds. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
DionjEA muscipula. Dionaea. Ellisin Nov. Act. UpsalA. p.98. 
pi. 8. Hoult. Linn. Pji. Syst. 6 . p. 497. 
pi. 50 . B. 
Venus Fly-trap. . Shaw Nat. Miscel. Darwin Bot. Gard. 
2. p. 19. pi. 3. 
This is one of the wonders of the vegetable creation, 
It is an american plant, growing in Carolina, and 
producing several elegant white flowers at the end 
of a simple stalk. But the curious part of the fly- 
trap, and that from whence it derives its name, is 
the leaves; these are all of them radical, i. e. grow- 
ing immediately from the bottom of the stem, and 
each is terminated by two lobes surrounded with 
prickles. In the particular organization of this 
part of the plant we find something very singular. 
