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fragrant, particularly at night, are eagerly sought 

 after by bees. 



Some of the most common garden flowers be- 

 long to native genera in the orders Pentagynia 

 and Polygynia of this class : Larkspur, Delphin'- 

 ium consol'ida; Monk's-hood or Wolfs-bane, 

 Aconi'tum Napel'lus ; Columbine, Aquile'gia vul- 

 ga'ris; Traveller's Joy, Clem'atis Vital'ba; andPio- 

 ny, Pseo'nia coralli'na, (which last grows wild on 

 some of the islands in the Severn,) are among the 

 number. 



There is a tree also, in the order Polygynia of 

 this class, a native of North America, which bears 

 a flower very much resembling our garden tulip, 

 and is therefore called the Tulip-tree, Lirioden'- 

 dron Tulipifera. It grows to the height of 

 seventy or eighty feet, and its wood is used for all 

 sorts of carpenters' work. The flowers, which 

 have six petals, spotted with green, red, white, and 

 yellow, are succeeded by large cones, or seed- 

 vessels, but these never ripen in England. 



The Sarrace'nia, Side-saddle Flower, is of sin- 

 gular structure, both in the flower and the leaves ; 

 the plant is very common in the swamps in North 

 America, but it is extremely difficult to cultivate in 

 this country. The singularity of the flower con- 

 sists chiefly in the stigma, which is spread out over 

 the stamens like an umbrella. The leaves are 

 hollow tubes, capable of holding water ; and it is 



