pitcher-plants

In the morning I caught a few butterflies and beetles, and my friend got a few land-shells; and we then descended, bringing with us some specimens of the ferns and pitcher-plants of Padang-batu.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Goblin's skein of pitcher-plants had transmogrified into a huge airborne man-of-war jellyfish.

The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984

Similar in their habits, but differing much in appearance from the sundews, are the pitcher-plants (_Sarraceniaceæ_), of which one species (_Sarracenia purpurea_) is very common in peat bogs throughout the northern United States.

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

The pitcher-plants are most abundant in the islands of Borneo, Java, and

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Another family of pitcher-plants (_Nepentheæ_) is found in the warmer parts of the old world, and some of them are occasionally cultivated in greenhouses.

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

There are thirty or forty different kinds of pitcher-plants, varying in size a great deal.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

All these pitcher-plants, though very beautiful to look at, are very cruel enemies to insects: for the pitchers nearly always have water in them; and flies and small insects are constantly falling into them, and getting drowned.

The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 Various

We are in the flat woods again -- palmetto-clumps under the pine trees, pitcher-plants and orchis in the low spots, violets and pinguicula beside the ditches, vetches and lupines and pawpaw and the trailing mimosa in the sand.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

Unfamiliar with the vegetation on the mountain, Piang was afraid to touch the many strange fruits, so he contented himself with bananas and cocoanuts, and for water he drank dew from the enormous pitcher-plants.

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

Page 102 specialty of this house is the collecting and shipping of wild plants some varieties of which are very rare and are only found in this part of the country; of these we will mention what are populary known as flytraps, pitcher-plants, sun-dews and trumpets, which are shipped all over the world, a number of them having recently been shipped to England.

Wilmington Up-to-Date: The Metropolis of North Carolina Graphically Portrayed. Compiled under the Auspices of the Chamber of Commerce. Also a series of Comprehensive Sketches of Representative Business Enterprises. N.C. 1902