My Dear Sir,

The above was cut from a paper at a distance & sent me yesterday. I feel flattered at the bracketting 

I am so full of my insectivorous plants that I cannot keep from writing about them, their interest is so intense.

I have quite failed to obtain any evidence of a conclusive character that the leaves absorb after having digested: but I notice that my Dionoea leaves open after macerating a blue bottle for 12 or 14 days, full of fluid & that fluid containing abundance of nitrogenous matter, runs down a channel on the leaf stalk to the root

For manure? Fancy each Dionoea leaf a little patent manure manufactory!⁴ 

Now I find that the Aldrovandra  is stated to float on stagnant waters in the South of Europe, but I have never seen it and can’t find any statement that it is either fly-catching or fly digesting.⁵ If it is either it would rather tend to upset my view

Can it be got? I have tried many places but cannot hear of any source

There are some very curious facts in support of my sewage notion about the Sarracenia,⁶  but I must wait & see & not trouble you too much, only this seems to me such a quaint notion that I could not help writing it.

Yours faithfully, | Lawson Tait