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taste, which increased after the rising of the lid, when the 
fluid slowly evaporated. My friend Dr. Turner perceived 
it to emit, while boiling, an odour like baked apples, from 
containing a trace of vegetable matter, and he found it to 
yield minutes crystals of superoxalate of potash, on being 
slowly evaporated to dryness. The pitcher whose contents 
Dr. Turner analysed was a large one; it had not opened ; 
and the whole fluid weighed only sixty-six grains. The 
upper part of the pitcher decays first; and the line at which 
this is observed, is often quite defined. Our largest pitchers 
measure six inches and a half from the highest part of the 
oblique mouth to the lowest part of the curvature at their 
base ; the greatest. circumference four and a half inches, 
Flowers dicecious. Perfume offensive, resembling in kind, 
though less in degree, that of the Liztrum pomponium, 
Raceme solitary, opposite to a leaf near the extremity of the 
branch ; its extremity nodding, till the flowers expand in 
succession, when it is elongated, and becomes erect. Pe- 
duncle round, about two feet and a half long, of which 
about eleven inches at the base is without flowers ; pedicels 
round, half to three quarters of an inch long, clustered 
irregularly, and pet page bifid, supporting two flowers, 
having a small subulate bractea on the lower side near the 
base, and sometimes the appearance of an abortive one 
opposite and nearer the flower. . Calyx four-parted, spread- 
ing or slightly divaricated ; segments blunt, coriaceous, 
containing honey, green within when first opened, after- 
wards red in the middle ; two opposite segments slightly 
overlap the two others in the bud. Anthers numerous, 
collected into a capitulum: on the top of a hollow club- 
shaped. pedicel, formed by the united filaments ; pollen an 
abundant yellow powder. The middle rib of the leaf, the 
cirrhus, the whole outside of the pitcher when young, but 
its ribs chiefly when old, the pon aap every 
part of the calyx which needs in the bud, and a narrow 
triangular space extending upwards from the axil of the 
leaf to the bud, which it includes, are covered with a rusty 
pubescence; every other part of the plant. is smooth. The 
whole is green except the lower part of the stem, which is 
brown; but the leaves, at first darkest above, become 
yellow in fading, and there is a tendency in them, and in 
almost every other part of the plant, to become red, parti- 
cularly in the lid, and especially its under side, which uni- 
formly acquires a deep red somewhat mottled colour, though 
at first it is quite green. | ? | ie , 
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