23 DIOECIA. 



about the banks of rivers, in obscure and uncultivated 

 places. The Leaves, which are alternate, have nerves 

 running through the middle of each, ending in a long 

 tendril, generally twisted j to which hangs a hollow 

 receptacle, or bag, whose aperture at the top is covered 

 with a leaflet representing a lid. This receptacle is 

 four or five inches long, and is generally half filled 

 with a sweetish fluid as clear as water, and what evapo- 

 rates or is exhaled in the day time, is again restored 

 in the night, by a secreting power in the plant it- 

 self. In the Botanical Library at Oxford there are 

 good dried specimens of this plant, which I have 

 seen,; and though Linnaeus visited England, partly on 

 purpose to see that Hortus siccus, yet he must have 

 overlooked these specimens, as with some hesitation 

 he has made this plant gynandrous in his system, 

 which, if he had seen them, would have removed 

 his difficulty. 



British Plants of this Order. 



.Botanical Generic Names. Common Namrj. 



12 Juniperus 1 Juniper 



4 Taxus l Yew. 



