pitcher-plant

It was not the trees and lianas only that were beautiful in these sunny openings, but the ferns, mosses, orchids, and selaginellas, with the crimson-tipped dracaena, and the crimson-veined caladium, and the great red nepenthe with purple blotches on its nearly diaphanous pitchers, and another pitcher-plant of an epiphytal habit, with pea-green pitchers scrambling to a great height over the branches of the smaller trees.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

The leafless acacias are also found here, as well as the _Nepenthes distillatoria_ and the _Cephalotus follicularis_, two remarkable varieties of the monkey-cup or pitcher-plant; while many very beautiful ferns and flowering vines adorn the coasts and lave their graceful fringes in the blue ocean waves.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

Just as the juices of our stomach dissolve meat, so that it may pass into the blood and nourish us, so the fluid in the jug of the pitcher-plant dissolves the flesh of the insects which fall into it, and makes that flesh fit to nourish the plant.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

I am afraid that you would hardly be able to answer this question for yourself, however carefully you might watch a pitcher-plant.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

In the margin of the pond we found the pitcher-plant growing, and here and there in the sand the closed gentian lifted up its blue head.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

There are other species common in the southern states, and a California pitcher-plant (_Darlingtonia_) has a colored appendage at the mouth of the pitcher which serves to lure insects into the trap.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

_B_, leaves of the pitcher-plant, _Sarracenia_ (_Sarraceniaceæ_).

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

Our pitcher-plant is one of the most wonderful and interesting of all the forms that grow, linking, as it were, the vegetable world with the animal, by its unnatural carnivorous habits.

The California Birthday Book Various

There does not appear to be here any actual digestion, but simply an absorption of the products of decomposition, as in the pitcher-plant.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

Consigning our newly acquired treasure to the keeping of the comprador, we sauntered forth in search of other discoveries, and were richly rewarded by finding several perfect specimens of the monkey-cup or pitcher-plant (_Nepenthes distillatoria_).

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various