Show A weed that eats comma commander ler alfred carpenter writing from juakin red sea country contributes tho the following remarkable instance of a plant p preying r e ying upon one of the verte vertebrata brato the in instance a t ance noted was observed by him when surveying the islands in the south th china sea a e a As I 1 neared a pool cut oft off by the ti tide de from tho the sea I 1 noticed among other submarine plants a very ordinary looking flesh colored weed lend ing to inspect ft it closer I 1 noticed numbers of small ish fish lying helpless in its fronds apparently with little or no life in them putting my hands down to pick one oi of them up I 1 fouad my fingers caught by suckers the weed the fronds of had CIOS closed L d tightly upon them the fish had been caught in every con ceivalle ol cei vable way by the head the tail sides aides et cand some of them had been hehl behl until the skin was completely nias cerate of the fish that were st still I 1 11 living biad evl evi dently been caught at different times ti they appearing appear ing in nil all stages of exhaustion n I 1 augret being unable to name cither either the plant or the fish but that the botanical cannibal really preyed upon the flony dent zeria of the deep there the least doubt |