Word: caldron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sticky & Warm. The trap of just about all such flowers is a hollow tunnel formed by the flower's blossom that botanists call the caldron. Some varieties of trap flowers are equipped along their rims with countless tiny hairs, which appear to an approaching insect to be other fluttering insects. Once it lands on the camouflaged rim, the decoyed bug is helpless, the victim of a slippery substance that can neutralize the suction cups on a fly's feet. No matter how it struggles, the bug slides into the caldron...
...Watchman, by Davis Grubb. The author of Night of the Hunter stirs another sulphurous caldron of horror...