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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ishment from the tree on which it grows. It is found both on deciduous and on evergreen trees.In some locations in Europe it is especially abundant on theapple tree, and, if in the right climate, there are few treespecies which are exempt from serving as its host. The mistletoe is an evergreen, shrubby plant of slowgrowth, attaining a length of about four feet, and its dura-tion of life is practically that of the tree on which it grows.The leathery leaves and rugged stems are yellowish-green incolor, and, in the axils of the leaves, are the small andinsignificant flowers, which ripen about Christmas-tide intopearly white translucent berries. At Christmas-tide the mistletoe is largely used for deco-rative purposes, especially in England, where the custom isancient, and also in our own land, where each holiday seasonfinds more and more of this unique plant gracing chandelierand window, until we, too, may some day find our maids allkissed — Under the mistletoe bough. William K. Higley.
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37- PITCHER PLANT.(Nepenthes ) MISCELLANEOUS PLANTS 205 PITCHER PLANT Prominent among the carnivorous plants are the PitcherPlants, whose leaves form tubes, or urns, or pitchers of vari-ous forms, which contain water, and to which insects areattracted and drowned. There is a very common pitcherplant in our northern bogs in whose urn-like leaves insectsare found drowned, but which does not have such elaboratearrangements for their capture as other forms. Perhapsthe most famous of the pitcher plants is one which is com-mon throughout the Southern States. The leaves are shapedlike slender hollow cones and rise in a tuft from the swampyground. The mouth of this conical urn is over-arched andshaded by a hood in which are translucent spots like smallwindows. Around the mouth of the urn are glands whichsecrete a sweet liquid, and drops of this nectar form a traildown the outside of the urn. Inside, just below the rim ofthe urn, is a glazed zone so smooth that insects cannot walkupon it. Belo

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