Chapters in modern botany / by Patrick Geddes.

  • Patrick Geddes
Date:
1899
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Credit: Chapters in modern botany / by Patrick Geddes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OTHER INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS—DIFFICULTIES AND CRITICISMS Fly-Traps (Dioncea aiid Aldrovanda)—Sundews and Birdlime Traps—BtUterworls—Sundews proper (Drosera)—Details, Functional and Structural—Digestion—Movetnents—Absorp- tion— Utility—Other Insectivorous Platits—Legends—Diffi- culties—Further Difficulties and Criticisms—Direction of further Investigation ; Possible Compromise. Fly-Traps (Dionsea).—Besides those insectivorous plants which we have already studied under the general title of pitchers, there are others more active in insect-catching, which we may call fly-traps. Of these the most famous, cynically nicknamed Venus's Fly-Trap {Dionaa musd- pula), grows in damp places in the east of North America, occun-ing in very local distribution in North and South Carolina, especially near the town of Wilmington. It was the first of the insectivorous plants to attract atten- tion, for in 1768 Elhs, a London merchant, but a shrewd naturalist withal, who discerned the animal nature of coral, sent a description of the plant to Linnsus, who in his enthusiasm called it 7niraculiim natures. But he sup- posed that the insects were captured accidentally, and subsequently allowed to escape. The Venus Fly-Trap, like its allies the Sundews, grows on the wet moorland. A circle of more or less prostrate
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