Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1898 — Carnivorous Plants. [ARTICLE]

Carnivorous Plants.

The sundews are really carnivorous plants. Their leaves are covered with bristles, each having on its tip a drop of glutinous liquid. When an in sec' touches a loaf he Is caught and he! by the glue, and the leaf gradual! closes over him, smothering him ti death. Ills body is then dissolved and digested by the plant.—New York World.