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D longifolia

I made a very few observations on the another species, viz the Drosera longifolia: the leaves of this plant catch flies in nearly the same manner; the only difference which I observed was, that after the t. marginal hairs have curl become inflected over a fly, the end of the long elongated leaf curls in far towards the footstalk much more than in D. rotundifolia, but not the sides two lateral edges sides of the narrow leaf.

A fly well inflected leaf reexpanded in two days & eighteen hours after a dead a fly had been placed on it.—)

When we consider the vast number of insects caught & killed by the sun-dew, — when we consider that each leaf can successively catch several flies insects, — that one placed