CARNIVEROUS PLANTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 307, 26 January 1894, Page 6

CARNIVEROUS PLANTS

f ; "Mr :trr Cttoi^ ; wrji% jinl ,$• 1 California, r Illustrated ? on the, subject |§ pf !i Carn^epoijisl giants/ ' ti says ttitfr % alia :~ v v JL t fan^il jar s „«. W ple> ,ia ,$e | little drosera, so common) in various | portions of the, poultry. „ l^e,. plant v| is small and inconspicuous. The first, one , I eter *ay, caught ny j by a^udden , flash of fi^rj red light, | fanLj cau«htthe Jititle r) c»fmTow ing tbej act which has rend*»d it aol |am<Mi|»?t I%ofi iw«?f wwr^tendff. " delfcate itaHru In tbe: cedtrei Sand ; around about: it near tto growtdt fottf or five singular, rotted* pad^Hu objects ahmtth* ntte.af'idiall but* tons. ♦ The»e i were Jeaves «wlm tfceif : appfr nurfttett w&& .*o?effld mith fed* 1 dish ttntaclee that «tnbd tp, | each bearing ■ « del ic ate drop ot dew | that gleamed [and glistened in ithto | dazzling, iMi flight Tike' a writable I garnetr Across^be top of tHetlektm 1 a MoDg-legged fragile' insect = lay, I caught but a moment before, arid | dying a moat te^iibto' <leHth. Fife or < .Bit- of the ihnir- like ten taclts- were itWrbwa* -across it»4egft> -and 'wing» t 1| holding it down aodprefiing itr bodt - nearer and nearer to the Ibaf, whili other rich, blood. red fttalk* were il^ all positions, bending over to encom/paaß i : the Tictinjt * ' The iigbt wa«l | &drror rn-immiature, > and remiudfH || me' <of the actions of aw odtopni | or | deviKS«l^ as tbe f Httle cefjhafopod is ' cobraonly oalletl. It has eight suckrtr. | Htied 'arms i^ttdidting frbdi v small; b^^hap^d body, «nd«acti ; arm hak I £\* I*e^inrioßit^, tne c»f | motion o( a fenake, eVftr iindulatiri^ I il^ernkg' ns ? ifo itith. suppre^sw bmotid%j •• while over/ the entire pias's I waves » anii varied' trades l bjt f cotbif f seem to ebb and flow. 1 Z 1 M