Botany for young people. How plants behave: how they move, climb, employ insects to work for them, &c (1872)
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 · New York, American Book Company · leaf 48
derable obstruction to returning, but none to entering. 90. Why plants which are rooted in wet bogs or in moist ground need to catch water in pitchers, or to secrete it there, is a mystery, unless it is wanted to drown flies in. And what they gain from a solution of dead flies is equally hard to… … side, and their way of climbing is mentioned in the foregoing chapter (19). Some leaves lengthen the tip into the tendril only ; some of the lower bear a pitcher only ; but the best developed leaves have both, — the tendril for climbing, the
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