Marianne North's painting of Nepenthes northiana, showing a lower and an upper pitcher

Some carnivorous plants, such as pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes, obtain nourishment from the feces of commensal animals.

Type specimen for Nepenthes smilesii, a tropical pitcher plant.

However, some pitcher plant genera ( such as Nepenthes ) are placed within clades consisting mostly of flypaper traps: this indicates that this view may be too simplistic, and some pitchers may have evolved from the common ancestors of today's flypaper traps by loss of mucilage.

This species has a small ( 2 – 5 cm ) pitcher similar in form to those of Nepenthes.

* Rajah Brooke's Pitcher Plant, Nepenthes rajah, a pitcher plant named by Joseph Dalton Hooker

The specialised pitcher traps of Nepenthes plants form on the end of tendrils.

Image: Nep raf211. jpg | Nepenthes rafflesiana upper pitcher with coiled tendril.

Examples of lithophytes include several Paphiopedilum orchids, the pitcher plant Nepenthes campanulata, several Utricularia species, many algae and liverworts.

The carnivorous pitcher plant Nepenthes insignis grows on Biak.

Nepenthes sibuyanensis, a pitcher plant species, is also endemic as its scientific name suggests.

An upper pitcher of Nepenthes faizaliana from Mount Api.

Other plants, including pitcher plants ( Nepenthes spp.

Other plants in the gardens include Nepenthes pitcher plants, which are carnivorous plants ; the golden butterfly orchid with its lustrous yellow flowers ; the American redwood ; the Japanese blossoming cherry, and the famous " botree ", the tree under which Buddha sat when he gained enlightenment.

Nepenthes sibuyanensis from Mount Guiting-Guiting

The longest edge was arranged crossways to the traffic direction, and the joints were broken in the method of conventional brickwork, but with the smallest faces of the pitcher forming the upper and lower surfaces.

Additionally, the position was not discarded — everyone lower on the ballot was moved up a spot and the writer, and pitcher Jack Meyer was inserted at the bottom with a 10th place vote.

The changeup is thrown with the same arm action as a fastball, but at a lower velocity due to the pitcher holding the ball in a special grip.

For example, the spin from a properly thrown slider ( thrown by a right-handed pitcher ) results in lower air pressure on the pitcher's left side, resulting in the ball " sliding " to the left ( from the pitcher's perspective ).

Watanabe has an even lower release point than the typical submarine pitcher, dropping his pivot knee so low that it scrapes the ground.

According to author John Helyar, in The Lords of the Realm, Messersmith was also deeply offended by general manager Al Campanis " inject ( ing ) a personal issue " into the talks ( it " cut so deeply with him ," Helyar has written, that Messersmith since has never been able to bring himself to disclose or discuss it ), and the pitcher refused to deal with anyone lower than team president Peter O ' Malley.

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While Mueller was being carried off the field to be replaced by a pinch runner, Dodger manager Chuck Dressen called on relief pitcher Ralph Branca, whose second pitch was hit by Thomson into the Polo Grounds ' lower left field stands for a game-winning, three-run homer.

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It suggests that during the next several months, through the spring of 1961, the demand for long-term capital funds may be moderately lower and that interest rates may tend to move a little lower, especially the rates on Federal, state, and local bonds, as well as those on publicly offered corporate bonds.

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The cubist generation before World War 1,, and, on a lower level, the surrealists of the period between the wars, both assumed an accepted universe of discourse, in which, to quote Andre Breton, it was possible to make definite advances, exactly as in the sciences.

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After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.

They looked at the ruins of the old Roman wall on the lower Via Veneto, then they went to the Farnese Gardens.

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The indecision did not last long: during May 1963 the CCITT Working Party on the New Telegraph Alphabet proposed to assign lower case characters to columns 6 and 7, and International Organization for Standardization TC 97 SC 2 voted during October to incorporate the change into its draft standard.

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