| Show Plants That Eat Meat Ono nt the most Inerrln of the InseLthora Is I the Sundew The nor n-or six small leaves lay close to the ground and each of them bore n crown Of dewdrops hlch spark lest II I the unhln lice rubles and diamonds A slender ocalle slung from tile ro eUe oC leaves BO from one aid oC I drooped some small while flowers ulw Is I the poetic name givsn I because of the gleam oC he Kmlk drops on the leaf surfaces but In Spite oC its beauty I I a little savage of vegetable life Most plants absorb nourishment from the sol and ulmo phere but the Sundew will drink milk and eat hC and muUon And hard boiled eggs It they are fed lu It I lots no keel n cook however so I cnth its own dinner Each leaf I covered with it number oC tiny rddlh tentacles And at the end of ench tn A arle IS I t little gland to which adhre a drl of Sticky liquid While watching the Sundew we nw It guy little fly In a auzy i con t draw near Hovering over the leaf he lightly light-ly poised himself above It and prepared pre-pared to sip the vlsild drops In a moment his Ce were entangled and h ws a Prisoner rhelseeo irdStherfeet of the Insect press ever no lightly the glands the motor Impulse as It Is called files Atilt nimaglnable rapidity down through the tentacles communicating with all upon the leaf and they at once bend In the directions of tile exciting object the fly In this case An soon a > the feet of the fly touches the ntacl s tint wonderful change In thm which IH called aggregation began The purplish protoplasm nhlh flows unceasingly In their cells leparaUd Into tiny niassca of purple matter tontine In u clear liquid Tire fly had alighted on the leaf a little to tile left of the center and the tentacles nearest to him naturally bent first and deposited him upoik 1 the nex t old so 01 until he wa gradually roiet to tile center Mlnwhl every gland secreted n digestive fluid which Is strongly acid and Is I on tar an eon he ascertained Identical with tills digestive fluids ot animate This fluid poured over the flY drowning him the tentacle bent clor and the eat holo1 Itself like A cup anti Iod voliess after several days I should expand nil fracas of the Insect voIll have JIpnrd < ISle ned absorbed Into the life of tha plant Codes Magazine for October |
