CHAP, LXXVI. JASMINA‘CER. JASMI‘NUM. 1253 
1080 

sect, the death’s head hawk moth (Acheréntia A’tropos Fab.), feeds, in the 
larva state (see fig. 1081. a), indiscriminately on the different species of jasmine, 
and on the leaves of the potato. When the perfect insect is captured, it 
sometimes utters a shrill cry, by the friction of the palpi on the trunk; but, 
in the opinion of M. Savi, by the escape of air from two cavities in the ab- 
domen. It makes its appearance during autumn, and is very difficult to 
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rear beyond the pupa state (4). It is indigenous throughout great part of 
Europe, and also in Africa and India. Sphinx jasminearum, of which jig. 1079, 
is the larva, and jig. 1080. the perfect insect, also feeds on all the various 
species of the genus. 

Statistics. The largest plant of the Jasminum officinale that we recollect having seen was at 
Cobham Hall, in Kent; where, in 1826, a plant covered great part of one of the fronts of the 
mansion, and must, at least, have been 50 ft. high. The price of plants, in the London nurseries, of 
the~species, is 25s. per hundred; and the varieties, from Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per plant : at Bollwyller 
30 cents: and at New York, 373 cents each. 
App. i. Hardy Species of Jasminum not yet introduced. 
J. mireum D, Don, G. Don’s Mill., iv. p. 63., isa native of Nepal, with pinnate leaves, which are 
Opposite, and have from 9 to 11 leaflets. ‘The flowers are of a golden yellow. 
J. nervdsum Lour., Don’s Mill, iv. p. 63., is a native of Cochin-China, with pinnate, alternate 
leaves, and ovate three-nerved leaflets. The flowers are white, and without scent. 
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