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pendages are surmounted ; hence the name of pitcher 

 plant. We have never observed these lids close again 

 when once open. Writers have called it a herbaceous 

 plant, but it is properly a shrub, never dying to the 

 ground, having a continuation of extension. The pot 

 in which it grows should be covered with moss, and the 

 roots liberally supplied with water every day. It de- 

 lights to be in a marshy state. The flowers are small 

 and in long spikes. 



Pancratium is a genus of Hot-house bulbs, and now 

 only contains five species. They are all free-flowering. 

 Several of them are handsome and fragrant. P. Mart- 

 timum and P. verecundum are the finest; the flowers 

 are white, in large umbels ; petals long, recurved, and 

 undulate. P. littoralis, P. specibsum, and P. caribceum, 

 are now given to the genus Hymenocdllis, and are fine 

 flowering species. Care must be taken not to give 

 them much water while dormant. The soil ought at 

 that time to be in a half dry state. They are in flower 

 from May to August. 



Polyspbra axillaris, once called Camellia axillaris, 

 though in appearance it has no characteristic of a 

 Camellia, and has been frequently killed in the Green- 

 house by being too cold for its nature ; leaves oblong, 

 obovate, towards the extremity serrulate. The leaves 

 on the young wood are entire. Flowers white ; petals 

 a little notched. It is worthy of a situation in every 

 collection. 



Passiflora, " Passion-Flower, so named on account 

 of its being supposed to represent in the appendages 

 of its flower the Passion of Jesus Christ." There are 



