Show WELL NAMED CANNIBAL PLANT nicaraguan vegetable that preys on living objects on the shores of lake nicaragua Is to be found an uncanny product 0 the vegetable kingdom known among the natives by the expressive name of the devil s noose how delighted would have been to make this cannibal plant he subject of one of his weird stories dunstan the naturalist discovered it not long ago while wandering on tha chores of the lake attracted by cries of pain and terror from his dog he found the animal held by black sticky bands which had chafed behe skin to the bleeding point these bands were branches of a newly dis covered carnivorous plant which has been aptly named the land octopus the branches are flexible black polished without leaves and secrete a viscid fluid they are also furnished with a great number of suckers with which they attach themselves to their victims it certainly deserves to be classed as the octopus of the vegetable world new york herald |