670 CONSERVATIVE ORGANS. [LECT. XI. 



aceous appendage, resembling, as its name im- 

 ports, a small pitcher. It is of rare occurrence; 

 but has been found as a caulinar 9 a foliar , and a 

 peduncular or floral appendage. 



1. The only caulinar ascidium that is yet 

 known, belongs to an Australasian plant, the Ce- 

 phalotus follicularis, discovered by M. Labillar- 

 diere, and afterwards found near the shores of 

 Princess Royal Harbour, in the neighbourhood of 

 King George's Sound, in Terra Australis, by Mr. 

 Robert Brown, who has described it in the ap- 

 pendix to Flinders's Voyage (vol. ii. p. 600). 

 This singular vegetable production grows in- 

 termingled with the leaves of the plant, form- 

 ing a circle round the base of each flower- 

 stalk. It is pendent by a curved projecting 

 petiole; but, supported in such a manner, that 

 its cavity is upright. The pitcher itself (1.2.3. 

 page 671.) is nearly egg-shaped, an inch in 

 length, and furnished with a lid. It is, exteriorly, 

 ornamented with three double costae (fig. 1. 2.) 

 proceeding from a crested lip (fig. 3. a.). These 

 costee are projecting with acute pilose margins (.), 

 and extend downwards below the bottom of the 

 pitcher (c.). The mouth consists of a ring (d.) 9 

 which gives origin to a number of parallel rib- 

 like processes (e.), which are curved inwards 

 over it by their upper extremities. The greater 



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