lAre the hairs instinct with reason, and do they act intelligently? For, seei 
     
     they turn towafds the Victim SIOwly,and as surely bend above him, and, at last, 
     
     they pin him down securely, smothered in their viscid "dewdrops." There he dies, 
     
     and rotting there, gives of his substance to support the plant which lured him to 
     
     destruction. Years age the greatest of all Naturalists, by patient study and‘ 
     
     investigation, determined that the hairs of Sundew are glands secreting an adhesive 
     
     fluid, with all the essential properties of gastric juice, capable of converting 
     
     its victims' bodies into digestible constituents which the plant assimilates and 
     
     turns to profit for its better faring among its neighbors. 
     
    

    
     Have we not here, then, ingenuity, craft and cunning, treachery and well-laid 
     
     plans? By its baited trap and subtle snare, and its shrewd discrimination, by its 
     
     motion almost muscular, and its strangely animal-like digestion - this, our second 
     
     murderer, wins a rare distinction, and we Stand beside him lost in wonder, almost 
     
     prone to overlook his criminal record in our admiration of his methods. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1 Narrow-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) 
     
     2 Round‘leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     3 Pitcher-plant (Sarracenia purourea)