A daily paper says : "A mosquito-catcher (Drosera dichotoma) is among the rare insectivorous plants in the Botanical Gardens at Washington. Nature lost a big opportunity to supply a long felt want when she failed to make this style of flora indigenous to the Atlantic coast".

But nature was not quite so oblivious to America's needs, for there are Droseras, or as they are popularly called, sun dews, along the Atlantic coast, that catch mosquitoes and other insects as freely as this Australian relative. Drosera filifor-mis, abundant in New Jersey, is a veteran catcher, and understands its business thoroughly.