figured in the London Flor. and Bat Magazines. 223 



cumstance it has been supposed that the office of this fluid was 

 to decoy insects into them. This, however, is but the conjec- 

 ture of botanists; the real design of their singular structure can 

 be no other than to display the endless diversity and power of 

 the Creator. 



In cultivation, it requires a high temperature for the roots as 

 well as the branches. It is to the circumstance of the pot con- 

 taining the plant, which has produced so many flowers at Chats- 

 worth, standing directly on the top of the entrance of one of the 

 main flues into the stove, that IMr. Paxton attributes its great 

 vigor and profuse flowering; it has attained the height of more 

 than twenty feet; it prefers a partially shaded place, and should 

 not be exposed to the rays of the hot sun. It was first intro- 

 duced in 1789, but was afterwards lost; subsequently, however, 

 both Mr. Cooper, of Wentworth, and the Messrs. Shepherds, 

 of Liverpool, raised plants from seeds received from the Cicar 

 Mountains, in Bengal. {Pax. Mag. Bat., Feb.) 



Mr. Buist has one or two young plants of the JVepen- 

 thes, which he lately raised from seeds; we saw them at our late 

 visit, but they had then only attained the height of two or three 

 inches, yet the minute pitchers were well developed. We hope 

 it will soon find its way into our stove collections; it is, undoubt- 

 edly, deserving of general cultivation. 



Carophylldcece. 

 Z/ychnis Bungedna. — This plant, which is noticed in our II. 

 p. 341, is also figured in Paxton'' s Magazine for February. We 

 there learn, in addition to what we have already given, that " it 

 is easy of cultivation, preferring a light, fresh, loamy soil; some 

 specimens grown in pots attained the height of from three to 

 four feet, and kept in flower, in a cool green-house, for nearly 

 two months. As late as July, a plant was turned out into a 

 south border, which produced upwards of forty flowers in Sep- 

 tember. The same correspondent writes thus: " When planted 

 out in May there is no doubt of its proving one of the most 

 showy half hardy plants lately introduced." 



Dicotyledonous, Monopetalous, Plants. 

 AsterdcecB. 



MO'RN^ Lindl. (Morna, one of the heroines of the northern romances, wna a beautiful 

 lady, confined in a !,'olden liall, guarded by a thonsand lancers, whose solo office was to 

 do her bidding day and night. Her court could only be held where the sunbeams ami the 

 summer bnezes had tlie freest access. During her residence on eartli, she was worshipped 

 as a divinity, and when slie disappeared, her knights and herlancers vanished with her. 

 Slie is described as having been a person of the most kind and gentle disposition but of 

 a melancholy and somewhat imperious temperament. Her figure was noble and com- 

 manding, her voice melodious, and her smile so resistless that the fiercest animals were 

 tamed by merely looking at her. After her, various heroines of northern romance have 

 been named Morna or Morni. In the |)resent instance, the ingenious reader will have 

 no (lllliculty in tracing a resemblance between this mystical personage and the plant 

 before him.) 

 nitii-d Lindl. The beautiful ilorna. A beautiful perennial (?) frame (?) plant; growing two feet 



