and wholesome herbs, but these tell only half the tale. No wild beast of the forest rends with sharper teeth than grow on thorn-trees of different kinds; if the wasp darts its poisoned sting into our flesh, so does the nettle; if snakes' bites be mortal, so is the venomous juice of the deadly nightshade. Not in the least surprising is it, then, that we should find certain plants indicating a propensity to prey. Animals of lower degree as regards every other disposition of life, why should they not participate in this one? That they do so is plain. Though as a rule, plants feed upon watery and gaseous matters, supplied by the earth and atmosphere, the members of at least two curious tribes, the _Sarracenias_, and the _Droseraceæ_ or "Sundews," depend not alone on solutions of manure, or other long-since-decayed organic substances, prepared by chemical action, but collect fresh animal food on their own behalf. The latter include the plants that may be seen engaged in their predatory work upon Carrington Moss. Before entering upon the consideration of them, we may take the opportunity, furnished by this long word _Droseraceæ_, of saying a little about the "hard names" so often charged upon botanical science. It is continually asked what need is there to call flowers by those excruciating Latin titles. Why cannot they have plain English names? Why must all our names be Like the verbum Græcum, Spermagoraiolekitholakapolides, Words that should only be said upon holidays, When one has nothing else to do?