"Drosera" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Drosera rotundifolia.—Very common on marshy commons, and is said to be poisonous to sheep, and to give them the disease called ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury
... Sun-dews (Drosera) are also insectivorous, the prey being in their case captured by glutinous hairs. Again, the Bladderwort (Utricularia), a plant with pretty yellow flowers, growing in pools and slow streams, is so called because it bears a great number of bladders or utricles, each of which is ...
— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock
... alimentary canal. I am not aware of any other case of extra-stomachal digestion having been recorded. The boa- constrictor is said to bathe its prey with saliva, but this is doubtful; and it is done solely for the sake of lubricating its prey. Perhaps the nearest analogy may be found in such plants as Drosera and Dionaea; for here animal matter is digested and converted into peptone not within a stomach, but on the surfaces of ...
— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin |
