DIONzEA MUSCIPULA, 
OR 
VENUS’s FLY-TRAP. 
Generic Character. 
Calyx five-leaved. 
Corolla five-petaled. 
Gertnen depreffed and crenated. 
Stigma fpreading and fimbriated. 
Specific Character. 
DIONNE A with ciliated leaves. 
Various arc the methods by which animals of a car¬ 
nivorous nature obtain their deftined prey ; fome 
feizing the vidlim with refiftlefs violence, or hunting 
it down till it is exhaufted with fatigue, or inflidting a 
deadly poifon by their bite, and thus fecuring it beyond 
all poffibility 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 difpofition prevails, but even 
throughout many of the fmallefi: tribes of nature; and 
particularly amongft infedts, of which feveral kinds 
might be adduced which occafionally prey even on 
their own fpecies. 
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