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I BEG to enclose a photograph of a specimen of Drosera rotundifolia found by me at the Lickey Hills on July 1 this year. If anything could demonstrate the propensity for fly-catching known to exist in this class of plants, surely this specimen does in the most marked degree. You will see that a moth has been entangled by the hairs of one of the leaves, which leaf has curved itself right over the moth in the most determined fashion. There is every appearance of a struggle having taken place which ended in the defeat and destruction of the moth.
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WILSON, W. Drosera. Nature 16, 361–362 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016361f0
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