CHAP. LXXVI. /ASMINA^CEJR. .7ASMI X NUM 



1080 



sect, the death's head hawk moth (Acherontia A'tropo.? Fab.), feeds, in the 

 larva state (see fig. 1081. a), indiscriminately on the different species of jasmine, 

 and on the leaves of the potato. When the perfect insect is captured, it 

 sometimes utters a shrill cry, by the friction of the palpi on the trunk ; but, 

 in the opinion of M. Savi, by the escape of air from two cavities in the ab- 

 domen. It makes its appearance during autumn, and is very difficult to 



1081 



rear beyond the pupa state (b). It is indigenous throughout great part of 

 Europe, and also in Africa and India, jSphiar jasminearum, of which fig. 1079. 

 is the larva, and fig. 1080. the perfect insect, also feeds on all the various 

 species of the genus. 



Statistics. The largest plant of the Jasmlnum officinkle that we recollect having seen was at 

 Cobhara Hall, in Kent ; where, in 1826, a plant covered great part of one of the fronts of the 

 mansion, and must, at least, have been 50 ft high. The price of plants, in the London nurseries, of 

 the species, is 25s. per hundred ; and the varieties, from Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per plant : at Bollwj Her 

 30 cents : and at New York, 37} cents each. 



App. i. Hardy Species of Jasmlnum not yet introduced. 



J. aureum D. Don, G. Don's Mill., iv. p. 63., is a native of Nepal, with pinnate leaves, which are 

 opposite, and have from 9 to 11 leaflets. The flowers are of a golden yellow. 



J. nervdsum Lour., Don's Mill., iv. p. 63., is a native of Cochin-China, with pinnate, alternate 

 leaves, and ovate three-nerved leaflets. The flowers are white, and without scent. 



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