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House No. 12. 

 The plants in this house, together with those in house no. 14, 



to furnishing a collection for the comparative study of plant fam- 



The ferns and their allies, in order to meet the requirements of 

 their culture, are placed at the end of the west side bench near 

 house no. 11. The pine family, Pinaceae, and the yew family, 

 Taxaceae, occupy the end of the east side bench near house no. 

 13. Following these are the monocotyledons or endogenous 

 plants in their order, terminating at the other end of the bench 

 with the orchid family, the Orchidaceae. The sequence of the 

 dicotyledonous or exogenous plants begins on the west side 

 bench, continuing its length as far as the ferns, then crosses to 



terminates with the loasa family, Loasaceae, at the end near the 

 tree-fern house. Cultural requirements necessitate placing in 



family, Cactaceae ; the former will be found on the north bench 

 in house no. 8, and the latter on the central bench in house no. 

 5, in various parts of house no. 6, and on the north and end 

 benches in house no. 7. 



Myrtiflorae with th< 

 side bench, at the entrance from house no. 13, continues along 

 that bench, then crosses at the end to the central bench, return- 

 ing and continuing around that, and then crosses to the south 

 side bench and, returning on that, terminates with the sun- 

 flower family, Compositae, near the entrance to house no. 13. 



There are so many plants of interest in this house that only a 

 few of them can be referred to here. On the west side bench 

 are the Australian grevilleas, among them Grcvillea alpina, a 

 rather compact shrub with an abundance of red flowers borne 

 for several weeks in the early part of the year, and Grcvillea 

 Thelemanniana, with pink flowers borne at the ends of the 

 slender drooping branches, the whole making a most pleasing 

 effect. Polygonum equisetitormc, from the Mediterranean region, 



