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them. This again demonstrates the indesirability of applying 
well understood and clearly defined appellations to very different 
objects of but faint similarity, and for which science has estab- 
lished well affirmed names. The etymologic meaning of the word 
Hedycarya has its origin from a New Zealand species with fruits 
of a sweetish taste. The petals are always absent in Monimiee, 
staminate and pistillate flowers mostly distinct and the leaves 
opposite. 
The order of Magnoliacee is represented here by a solitary 
member, the Pepper-tree of the colonists (Drimys aromatica). 
This order differs from Menispermez in usually bisexual flowers, 
indefinite numbers of stamens, the minute embryo and by more 
or less collective other details, which it is needless for the present 
purposes to explain. The Drimys is never found away from springy 
shady valleys, hardly ever ventures out of the densest forest, 
unless adscending the alps beyond the tree-zone, when dwarfed to 
a small bush, but finding sufficient humidity of the air to prosper 
in open localities. Indeed most species of Drimys seek a cool 
or even cold clime, although the genus is not represented in 
Europe. The Greek name was given in allusion to the pungent 
acridity of these plants. 
XV.—THE SUNDEWS 
AND ALLIED PLANTS. 
Tux Droseracee, always glittering in dew, as the name implies, are 
dispersed through all altitudes up to eternal snow, and through 
all latitudes from the polar to the equinoctial regions. The > 
attention of a playful child is attracted to these peculiar plants 
as well as the observation of the physiologist, who studies their 
dewlike secretions, or their power of assimilation, or the irritability 
of their glandular hair, or the mobility of their leaves for catching 
insects; while again the acrid-poisonous sap of these plants 
