452 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Jury 5, 1856, 
ears past. I don’t want » you ‘to take my | generally supposed to be the natural direction. In]same  spirality is still observable; the teeth of 
i on it; come see, and judge for meia those knaurs, too, which schoolboys knock out of | Mosses, the elaters of Liverworts, the tubes of 
I challenge contradiction to somes statement, a nd this me bark of Lime trees and other trees, and which | Lichens an me seaweeds, a en those 
is all through suppr —— smok . botanists ca embryo buds, every rudimentary | animalcular procreative bodies which escape al] 
What is true of the Tem: l bud is eve tat by close ly packed | research except that the lynx-eyed 
every t | fib Nor, indeed observers, each is + e isi leed 
is permitted to escape in large shi It is absent te the logs o of Lignum vitæ to be seen in | look without a spiral tendency manifesting itself 
which ruins the plants in Whitehall oe, — wad ven mee whe vig the eye is directed, whether in = Tal 
Bu pam Palace, and St. 8's aig and in ase las th rg anife st to the bluntest perception or in 
r Square, Garden, or place in its | to ry saropan esent erae p pt the 
reach I It ves behoves all who value their health | that the «He ad ‘ib res, or longitudinal stretue, ed eyes of higher fst oma 
ndon to set their ipa ae y all plants Meee is spiral, an Why then this peculiar paceets ? Why is the 
oinm submission to the, e now brought u solid timber spiral? and the microscopic cells and 
Lambeth, lying Vest o foam tate i ss bes spiral, and reproductive organs spiral, and 
of Parliament, we seriously Se the |the bark which in everything that is weakest ll as strongest 
por ies attention of all who | lean slightly one arih pt: represent a spiral still? Is it to make the weak strong and the 
ire that stately pile to retain its beauty, or | look at a scaffold pole, strong stronger? We believe so, as seems to be 
the interior decoratio: , or the sur- | in the rosary of the Crystal Palace, or at an proved in those weak tropical climbers which 
rounding neighbourh ingly lie seri but bey ant tw = hree 
health. Owing to some so: come together and twist into one column stand 
of dexterous management the erect like preg st tiffest trees of the forest, Bes: n 
otteries in Lambeth | have future discussion. Wee 
managed tent ourselves with producing the Guatemala er z 
pa from the shew k of | ster as a demonstration of a universal law. 
ERsTON’s Act; 
see that this exemption is 
out t thdrawn by a 
greater Pi than 
ay po gain ia located 
elsewhere. 
178, CoRYANTH: eet 
C. hypochilio galeato apice acuto anticè puberulo ungui equail, 
mesochilio eplicato intus levi epichilio cual, epichilii mar- 
gine pa s uni 
atulo lobis lateralibus Faten lca 
A native of Brazil, ound in the pro- 
vince of St. Ca arine’s Dy a aer me in the service of 
onghe. Purchased in June, 
aar for the Bishop of iden sorte it flowered at 
maha bay oo a week or two since. It is next akin 
fiend Pd bw differs in the flowers 
peing o scat wi pots, and in the 
fo of the pret f the lip. The helmet 
hypochl) i is gly nt ee and slopes gradually from 
he crown being curved badges in front, in 
he way of a ee ates cap ; and the k (mesochil) 
as long as the bu moe deel the bree: lobes 
bet haped. 
THE accom figures of whose pona 
represent a om et n C. maculata the raies Caril Ate 
of malformation in some un- are nearly hoi d E slighty curve ed. “Mr o 
tree. Our untiring cor- the gardener at Farn! tle, in ie us that t 5 
t, Mr. SKINNER, has ower st upright for ve 8 inches, an 
sent it from Guat but only bent down when the two flowers rom ecto veh 
unable to rd th for it to support their w wa 
vas È 4 is fine addition kabl 
(aplant tiiat bad prodaced it. He rchids after sa Rt. Revd. Charles Richar 
d it K branch, the Lord;Bishop of Winchester, a most padam ian 0 
extremity of which had been scientific hot eidulbanes ai and the possessor of one of te 
7 in its pro- best and best cultivated collections of Orchids 
gress, so compelled to Europe. 
grow down upon itself. In SS 
other (i words, «the -matter VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY.—No. A 
Faih had pere pert 509. itie C 
an | have almost in respect of thorr para- 
lengthening branch, having found itself unable mast which i made by clamping planks sitism to the on which they pre; 
advance directly o onwards, fook a lateral mea Sen Ri aa and it “will ‘be seen that every little split | Phænogams. Li em they are divisible into two 
g 1ayer upo t fi e hay yeapeut principal groups, true and ot ear 
till at last, th tł d, | a in a search after an exception, an per may, however, in som 
the malformation Akay in 4 pie rader wi without reia nro Our monster from Guatemala | of their ultimate effe = Wiel once - eminblialiee me 
head. It however seems ge ora that some me- s afte r all, then, sa conformable to rule; although | fatal as those which are more immediately or directly 
chanical obstacle, such as passed round that tk fi bint se FER oe 
the branch just below the Jaan a also present} And if we look around us the same te wns to | 510. Before res procee: hi = tari coe in ee 
and Corts tag gas om a rmation s fa so | spirality is found phat haa ating p Tape a Lhe species which are injur oP 
is requisite to make a few observations, A very 
contributing to th in ques The say nothing of the tenitrils “of the ak deme on 
ingular i pushes o f fungi g grow on decayed or decaying ani 
bg an Aee as it i TAE mere sm, as a higher ine or the Pea, the twining | vegetable matter. it has therefore beer doubted 
Sm Gh ScComnt considerations to which stem of Bindweed plants, or of the| whether it is possible for any fungus to establish itself 
it naturally gives rise huge twisted cables (lianes) which | upon an organism in aise health. But fungi are not 
In th place, thi he growth being stopped, where im all rough a primæ- | the only parasitic Crypto There are parasitic 
were the leaves which must have produced val forest, we may point to such a| Algæ an gi. Elachistea scutulata, 
e specimen havi und without c: as the exed figure which | for instance, is so in one with Himanthalia lorea, 
its bark this question can only be answered conjec represents some non-twining plant, | the common sea known under the name of ge 
turally. It is, however, almost ber ed that leaves we forget what, which has taken| thongs, that it is impossible to here the ns? 
existed in the cup itself, as is indicated by small upon itself to c the twisted | the one ends and that of the other begin ki Np ‘i 
scars, one of which on a level wih B in the right structure to a degree wholly unob- | Moreover two kinds of fruit totally differen? in 
i j wos those of the se: which it grows, so that there ¢ 
hand figure evidently nts the seat of a once served in it before.* : - ification 
i ; enomore question about the one not being a modifica 
active bud, and several such scars are visible both r this peculiarity, which | Sf the other, than there is of the Mistletoe being of &8 
outside and inside t up. seems peculiar to the Vegetable|, tirely diudaet naitre from on which it grows. 
_ But the most remarkable feature in the specimen , Kingdom, or if not liar chiefly | The same may be said of parasitic Lichens which 
is the ent of the fibres of wood. The aera d pey confined to external | į it of many other species. The the 
stalk i ne fibres arranged mic ive tissues with 
arrangemi 
is evidently co 
but that 
peculiari 
evident in “a cup, which at A Sabot unmistakeable 
that the long spiral turn of the stalk is 
y directed in a strictl 
a This brings to our recollection some examples of 
~ spirally formed wood, which we had almost for- 
go bee: 
roscope shows it in 
alt the tistaes kat are invisible to 
en 
t 
wie at difference of essence. In neither case is 
eri Da nce that the parasite was esta! ablished on & 
seased. 
i is a well known fact that if m age 
there 
plant 
lenhe 
Teh 
of a most attenuated films. Even in the lowest 
eas] 
conditions that exist in the vegetable world the 
* The og he furnished by some correspondent, but un- 
ig fo ae letter of explanation has been hopelessly 
close connection 
ny ree 
appendages of the axis 
