Its leaves were faded and somewhat shrivelled.

The next morning it appeared to be dead.

Do you suppose the odor of milk or meat, or of any good food, would affect a plant like that?
Animals shut up with alcohol die in just the same way.
~24.

A Drunken Plant.~--How many of you remember about a curious plant that catches flies?
Do you remember its name?
What does the Venus's fly-trap do with the flies after it catches them?
Do you say that it eats them?
Really this is what it does, for it dissolves and absorbs them.

In other words, it digests them.