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PLANTS OF PREY. 
Most land animals feed upon plants, and 
most plants feed upon the soil and the air, says 
the Technical World Magazine. But there are 
a few plants which reverse the order of nature 
and feed upon animals, at least to a certain ex¬ 
tent. They may fairly be called plants of prey, 
for, though they do not swoop like eagles or 
pounce like tigers, they catch live game and 
kill, devour and digest it. 
These abnormal plants are commonly called 
insectivorous, but the name carnivorous is 
more fitting, for some species feed on fishes and 
mammals, in addition to insects, and assimi¬ 
late pieces of meat offered to them. 
At least five hundred species of plants catch 
insects, but many of them appear to make no 
use of their prey. The plants described below 
are really carnivorous and require a certain 
quantity of animal food for perfect health and 
development, though they can exist without it. 
Most carnivorous plants are natives of bogs 
and swamps. The sundew family is the largest 
and most widely distributed. The true sundew 
(Drosera) includes ninety species of low grow¬ 
ing, delicately formed plants with leaves 
arranged in a rosette at the root. Some are so 
small that only a keen eye can discover them, 
while others are several feet in height. Forty- 
seven species are natives of Australia, and only 
nine are found north of the equator. Several 
species grow wild in the United States. They 
are best cultivated in shallow pots filled half 
with potsherds and half with bog earth and 
chopped moss. The smallest proportion of 
lime in the soil, even the lime of “hard” water 
used for sprinkling, is injurious. and may be 
fatal to the sundew or other carnivorous plant. 
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