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of September, 1808. I think the Samolus Vakrandl 

 was raised from seed by the Doctor, who cultivated 

 British plants with as much industry as others often 

 cultivate exotics. 



The Epidendron flos aeris, a native of India Epiden- 

 beyond the Ganges, is regarded also by botanists ^nt. 

 as a parasitical plant, because it is generally found 

 growing on other trees.* But there is a circum- 

 stance related concerning it which seems to excite a 

 suspicion that it cannot be truly a parasitical plant. 

 Mr. Loureiro says it will continue to vegetate for 

 years even when suspended from the ceiling of a 

 room, producing blossoms that exhale the richest 

 fragrance; from which I think it may be inferred that 

 it derives its nourishment wholly from the atmos- 

 phere, and not from the plant to which it adheres. 



SECTION II, 

 Climate. 



MOST plants are affected by climate, and many 

 are confined to a particular hemisphere or latitude 

 which they are seldom found to pass. Such is the 

 case with the Proteacece of Jussieu, which are con- 

 fined almost entirely to the southern hemisphere, 

 and abound chiefly in the latitude of the Cape of 

 Good Hope.-)- Hence it is that habitats and cli- 



* Willdenow, Princ. Bot. p. 263. 

 f Lin. Trans, vol. x. p. 20. 



