72 LYCOPODIUM. 



merely specimens, proceeding from the imagina- 

 tion of the artist. At night the ponds are covered 

 with a gauze frame, to preserve the finned crea- 

 tures from nocturnal enemies ; but with all the 

 precautions used, the kingfishers sometimes cap- 

 ture them, and many had received injury, al- 

 though they escaped from those depredators. 



A number of the Chinese varieties of oranges 

 are in the garden, including the Citrus nobilis, 

 or Mandarin orange, and numerous others.* 



There were also several plants of a species of 

 Lycopodium, planted in pots, and kept well 

 watered ; it is an elegant species, rising from 

 a stalk of about five inches in height, hav- 

 ing on the summit its peculiar foliage, some- 

 times expanded and sometimes closed. This is 

 a very ornamental plant ; it resembles the species 

 given me at Manilla, which I was told had been 

 procured from Mexico, where it is found grow- 

 ing upon the rocks ; and although kept for years 

 in a dried state, revives and expands its foliage 

 when placed in the water. t 



* Besides the unequalled living collection of birds, &c., in 

 the possession of this gentleman, his portfolios are stocked 

 with a large and valuable collection of beautiful and correct 

 drawings by Chinese artists, from nature, of birds, fish,, 

 plants, &c. indigenous to China and the eastern islands. 

 , t The specimen to which I allude is named by the 



