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JBtancra musripula. Natural Order: Droseracece — Sundew Family. 
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NOWN as a denizen of warm latitudes, and consequently not 
often found in colder climates, except in hothouse culture, this 
perennial plant is rather delicate, but can be raised without 
difficulty if repotted each year and kept standing in a saucer 
^ of water. The leaves have a peculiar retractile power, clos¬ 
ing whenever an insect lights on the surface, thereby holding 
it a prisoner within its embrace, only relaxing its hold when it has 
entirely withdrawn the nourishing properties from its victim. The 
flowers are white, being grouped in an umbel of from eight to ten 
on a stalk about a foot high. It is called Dioncea from Dione, the 
mother of Venus; and muscipula, from the Latin, denotes fly-gates. 
"\TTE sail along a rocky shore —the cliffs are gray and green, 
While in the sunlit depths below as lofty cliffs are seen. 
We float upon the waves of Life, with Death at either hand, 
And what is false and what is true we may not understand. 
T^ALSE wave of the desert, thou art less beguiling 
Than false beauty over the lighted hall shed: 
— L. Bruce Moore. 
TT THY, I can smile, and murder while I smile; 
And cry content to that which grieves my 
What but the smiles that have practic’d their smiling, And wet my cheek with artificial tears; [heart; 
Or honey words measured, and reckon’d as said. And frame my face to all occasions. 
— Miss London. — Shakespeare. 
J T E seem’d for dignity compos’d, and high exploit, 
But all was false and hollow. —Milton. 
\T OU’RE wrong; he was the mildest mannered 
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat! [man 
With such true breeding of a gentleman, 
You never could divine his real thought. 
— Byron. 
'T'HEIR friendship is a lurking snare, 
Their honor but an idle breath; 
Their smile, the smile that traitors wear; 
Their love is hate, their life is death. 
— Simms. 
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