Dionaea

It is a strange fact that Dionaea, which is one of the most beautifully adapted plants in the vegetable kingdom, should apparently be on the high-road to extinction.

Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

Flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) are only native to a small area that straddles the border between North and South Carolina, and they are falling victim to poachers, habitat destruction, and wildfire suppression.

Carnivorous Plants Dwindling Across U.S. From Poaching And Habitat Destruction 2010

The carnivorous Venus fly traps (Dionaea muscipula) are native to some of the pocosins and peat bogs of Ecoregion 63 in the Carolinas.

Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA) 2009

It seems like Dionaea house is still ongoing, or was a few months back, is it?

Story2Oh! Rogers 2008

The latest entry was: Dionaea muscipula (Venus's flytrap).

The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994

And the Dionaea, or Venus's Fly-trap of the Southern States, has some leaves which fold together upon any insect that alights upon their upper surface; and by means of a row of long spines that fringes the leaves, they prevent his escape.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

The contrivance in Utricularia and Dionaea, and in fact in Drosera too, seems fully as great and complex as in Orchids, but there is not the same motive force.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

We do not hesitate to class amongst vegetables the Drosera, the Dionaea, the

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

As to the Drosera, the Dionaea, and insectivorous plants in general, they are fed by their roots, like other plants; they too fix, by their green parts, the carbon of the carbonic acid in the atmosphere.

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

He studied also the contrivances of certain insectivorous plants, such as the Drosera and the Dionaea, to seize their prey.

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900