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the juice of that upas tree of whose deadly 

 shade a cock-and-bull story took such deep 

 root in our language that it still affords a 

 fictitious trope for orators. 



Mr. Barlow might find much to say on the 

 many useful or curious plants here represented, 

 notably the various trees and creepers whose 

 juice, once oozing to waste in leafy wildernesses, 

 now becomes more and more important through 

 the increasing demand for india-rubber in our 

 greedy manufactures. But his hearers might 

 begin to yawn before he had got through one- 

 tenth of over a hundred cases here laid out for 

 inspection ; so, as soon as the shower be over 

 that has driven us into this instructive refuge, 

 let us go forth into the open air, only pausing 

 to look respectfully on the portraits of botanists 

 and explorers, among which the tutor may 

 point to Sir Joseph Banks, or Baron von 

 Humboldt, while the pupils will want rather 

 to identify Captain Cook ; the general public 

 may be most concerned to see Charles Darwin 

 or Marianne North ; and those who have had 

 the patience to read through the foregoing 

 chapters can pick out George III., Lord Bute, 

 the Aitons, the Hookers, and other worthies 



