so BITTER-ALMOND FLAVOUR. 



1. 16 and t. 1873, plants widely different from 

 each other in botanical characters, as well as in 

 colour and every particular except smell. Their 

 odour has one peculiarity, that it is not at all 

 perceptible while the plants are growing, nor 

 till they begin to dry. It proceeds from their 

 whole herbage, and should seem to escape 

 from the orifices of its containing cells, only 

 when the surrounding vessels, by growing less 

 turgid, withdraw their pressure from such opi- 

 iices. When this scent of upav hay is vehement, 

 it becomes the flavour of bitter almonds. The 

 taste of syrup of capillaire, given by an infu- 

 sion of Orange flowers, is found in the her- 

 bao-e of Gaultheria procumhens, Anch\ Be- 

 pos. f. 1 16, and Spircca Vlmaria, Engl Bot. 

 t. 960, two very different plants. 



Some of the above examples show an evi- 

 dent.analogy between the sniell and colours of 

 flowers, nor are they all that might be pointed 

 out. A variety of the Chrysanthemum incli^ 

 cum with orano-e-coloured flowers has been 

 lately procured ixom China by Lady Amelia 

 Hume. These faintly agree in scent, as they 

 do in colour, with the Wali-fiower, Chciran- 

 thus Cheiri ; whereas the common purple 



