54 MOTION.

perhaps cross slightly ; after a few moments they separate
and jerk away from each other again; and so they go on
continually, only they fidget more than ever when the
weather is very warm and the air moist.

MOVEMENTS OF CARNIVOROUS PLANTS.

Neither the “sensitive” nor the “fidgety” plant can gener-
ally be observed by little English children, but now I will
tell you of a curious native of your own country.

Fie, 15.

 

Drosera rotundifolia, (The sundew plant.)

This little flower lives in bogs or wet moors. If there is a
nice peaty bog anywhere within your reach, you may go and
hunt with a good hope of finding him at home.

There are three varieties of this plant ; two with long, and
one with round leaves, tufted like a daisy, and with some-