1893.] Frost Freaks of the Dittany. 185 
placing them on the tongue. The result was wholly negative, 
as nothing distinguishable from pure distilled water could be 
tected. As the upper part of the stems was dead and dry 
and the roots perennial, the conclusion was that the water 
through these apertures in the bark. The action of frost in the 
sound might account for the required pressure, and the 
whole would be thus explainable on physical principles. But 
explains too much, since no reason can be assigned why 
the phenomenon should not be universal and not confined to 
*single species, 
€ making these observations I have been to some pains 
Sinc 
0 ascertain whether any one else has witnessed this phenom- 
‘non and thus { 
this is the first 
'9 be a frost-weed. 
Proper season. The statement in-the first 
ual, 1848, where the name ‘‘frost-weed 
me Oa fi P| * . , cent b 
book ent: sure in Mr. Wm. Hamilton Gibson’s re 
a “ntitled “Shar Eyes.”! This figure is somewhat 
: hapter of a vignette constituting the first letter of this 
; 'S book and aiming to show all the parts of the 
Mew York, tig, Article 
“The Frost Flower,’’ pp. 210-211. 
