Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 144
no hold for his little feet and goes tumbling down into the fluid atthe bottom of the pitcher. Once there, hecannot get out, but is drowned and digested,as happens in our own Trumpet-Leafs. Sometimes the rim bears a circle of sharpspikes, pointing downward, that are said nowand then to catch small… … THE DARLINGTONIA, CALIFORNIA. formed later stand out in the air and set theirtraps for creatures that fly. The bladderworts are plants growing usuallyin the stagnant water of ditches and pools.Most of the common ones have their leaves cut 664 PLANTS THAT FEED UPON INSECTS. into fine, thread-like…
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