Venus's Looking Glass - Encyclopedia

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

VENUS'S LOOKING GLASS, a popular garden name for Campanula Speculum (or Specularia Speculum), from the old name for the plant, Speculum Veneris. It is a common FIG. i. - Leaf of Venus's Fly-Trap (Dionaea muscipula), viewed laterally in its expanded state, slightly enlarged. (After Darwin.) F3 FIG. 2. - Leaf of D. muscipula closed over Insect. A, viewed from the side; B, from above.

FIG. 3. - A, sensitive bristle and glands of D. muscipula, X50; B, glands, X300.

cornfield plant in the south of Europe, and is grown in gardens on account of its brilliant purple flowers.