The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science: With the Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Montreal..., Том 7Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald B. Dawson, 1875 |
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Стр. 350 - I now inclose you an exact figure, with a specimen of its leaves and blossoms, shews, that nature may have some view towards its nourishment, in forming the upper joint of its leaf like a machine to catch food: upon the middle of this lies the bait for the unhappy insect that becomes its prey. Many minute red glands, that cover its inner...
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Стр. 351 - Each side of the leaf is a little concave on the inner side, where are placed three delicate, hair-like organs, in such an order that an insect can hardly traverse it without interfering with one of them, when the two sides suddenly collapse and enclose the prey with a force surpassing an insect's efforts to escape.
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