The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 1772
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Brittle Star _v._ algæ--Fungus _v._ meal-worm--Stag-headed caterpillars--Liverwort _v._ small insects--Natural flower-pots--Watercups of Bromeliads--Sarracenia and inquiring insects--An unfortunate centipede--Pitcher-plants: their crafty contrivances--Blowflies defy them and spiders rob them--Bladderwort's traps which catch small fry--Hairs and their uses--Plants used as fly-papers--Butterwort _v._ midges--Its use as rennet--Sundew and its sensitive tentacles--Pinning down an insect--Suffocating and chloroforming the sundew--Venus' fly-trap which acts like a rat-trap--Have plants a nervous system?