THE BLASCHKA FLOWER MODELS. 675 



mit, but here, again, all are so exquisite that it is difficult to 

 make a choice. Equally fine are the golden butterfly-plant from 

 Trinidad, the spiderlike, black-barred Brassias, the beautiful 

 blue and white CatMeya crispa with its crimped edges, and the 

 lustrous rose-tinted CaUleya amethystina. 



New beauties appear at every step. Convolvidi and starry 

 Ipomeas fling their light garlands across their cardboard tablets, 

 as if feeling for some trellis to wind about ; the pimpernel opens 

 its little red weather-glass of a flower ; the dainty sundew catches 

 the light in its tiny diamonds ; the Venus's flytrap shows the 

 unwary victim caught in its fatal leaves. 



In the gallery overhead are the cryptogams plants whose na- 

 ture renders them difiicult subjects for illustration. The utmost 

 care has been exercised here in selecting the types which will 

 prove of the greatest use, and there will probably be added from 

 time to time the examples most needed. It is intended to present 

 the lower forms of plant life in a well-chosen series of types from 

 motile protoplasm, fungi, and algse, through mosses, club mosses, 

 and liverworts to ferns. These models are quite as wonderful in 

 their way as those of the flowering plants, if less interesting to 

 the general public. Among the ferns an Adiantum shows in its 

 magnified details the entire process of reproduction, from the tiny 

 spores to the young fern with developed rootlet and frond. 



No written description of these models can give an adequate 

 idea of the immense service rendered to science by them ; to ap- 

 preciate this it is necessary to study the collection in all its length 

 and breadth. 



Considered in the light of a memorial, we need only say it is 

 worthy of the earnest life it commemorates. The bronze tablet 

 on the wall, beautiful in its simplicity, bears the following in- 

 scription : 



MDCCCXIV MDCCCLXXXVII 



IN MEMORIAM 



CAROLI ELIOT WARE 



MEDICI 



HUJUS UNIVERSITATIS ALUMNI 



HASCE IMAGINES 



DONAYERUNT 



CONJCX ET FILIA SUPERSTITES 



RURA FLORES AMICUS EX ANIMO COLTIT 



VALDEQUE DILEXIT 



Marvelous stories are told, according- to Mr. St. George B. Littledale, 

 by the natives of Keria, near Khotan. of the gold and precious stones they 

 dig up from the ruins of cities huried in the sands. Tliey make regular 

 expeditions into the desert to recover the lost treasures, and come back 

 telling of foi'tified cities guarded by ancient men in quaint Chinese cos- 

 tumes, speaking an unknown tongue. 



