Excerpt from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Vol. 6 of 13: And Annals of Mining, Metallurgy, Engineering, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology If a bit of dry moss, peat, or other rubbish, is blown on to the disk, as often happens, the tentacles clasp it in a useless manner. They soon, however, discover their mis take, and release such innutritious matter. Drops of water falling upon the leaf whether as natural rain or artificially sprinkled-produce no effect. This is the more remarkable as small rain-drops often adhere to the viscid secretion of the plant, and must occasion a pressure vastly greater than that of the bits of hair above mentioned. It is obvious that to be affected by rain-fall would be highly inconvenient to the plant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.