Show THE thi INSECT PLANT the gleaner of last week w pek contains an interesting description jo of t this his I 1 y vegetable ege table tabie curiosity it says W A thing ahing without a name part partaking liking both of the the properties of of a vegetable and ai insect has been lately discovered at plymouth north carolina it is shaped like a wasp when it assumes the ibe insect or animal character and is about one inch in length when tile the insect has attained its growth it disappears under the tire surface of file the ground and dies soon after the two hind bind legs begin bepin to sprout or vegetate the shoots extend upwards anti and the plant reaches the tha height of six inches and arid leaves like the trefoil at the extremities of the branches there is a bud which contains neither leaves nor li flowers but an insect which as it prows falls fails to the ground or reina remains ills tits on its parent plant feeding on th lh leaves till the plant is exhausted when the insect returns to the e art arl armband hand band and the plant shoots forth orth again |