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Juty 17, 1875.] 
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CHRONICLE. 
67 
out; and though the жы кы are well stocked at all 
seasons, = "was had, in most cases, taken the place 
f the li 
: The Nes between the growth of most things 
and the same kept in pots, unless 
collection, among them e from Ab 
e" e bids fair to rival ES nil reine in size and 
Anothe r most care ажы plant I saw in flow 
Armenia, figured in the 
09. This belongs to the 
a dwarf yellow-flowered 
family of Boragineze, and is 
plant, five bla spots on each er. It 
in the m g 
eat advantage to do so, an 
most Am 
all amateurs whose aspiration 
commo 
none of the train 
stant trouble which many greenho 
"ы к up very little space, and though their 
flow e not as a rule жу няд A yet there isa 
уснаа ад succession » all se If one can only 
learn when a how to water ten, the secret of their 
the cause of death in nine cases o 
I mu — mit to mention en species of Tulip 
which have been Esas duced by M. Lei chtlin through 
s Russian enne. Tope 
what v of it, 
is the finest Tulip in cultivation, dat ae 
wild and oncle erigi any of the most E idit 
Dutch varieties. It was shown at one of the early 
n yei 
n to give a right idea of its uty. 
The other Talip phe Eichleri, is also a fine species, 
allied to Oculis solis, whi ich Iw as lu cky enough to 
flower for th It will, 
Беек, be impossible for me to enumerate a tithe 
of the remarkable plants I saw in and out of flower. 
ose which admit of cultivation will Ne grown and 
а — skilful care, if it 
* 
increased by is pos- 
sible for е or propagation is his 
strong poin ak like es things that one can do 
"E he is cen of it 
would only say that, э oing carefully through 
ie list of known Lili rm i o the Сое 
нды m esate or four суч ВА which ¢ in all accessible, 
ар: intr uced, ough of varieties, no 
ar dur deos 
Peg then any. oping 
of йй сае апа science, — кера of iei 
с ners Chronicle who m 
any means hav 
the apportait of ettin "diem will as ndis the 
chance, I n etico the A 
Liliu. eee Behan aot to the longifloru 
group, which is found i in the Himalayas from Remon 
EM i са plant could be easily procured by 
ny tea-planters or residents in Mussoorie or 
p 
oxypetalum.. —A small Fritillaria-like plant, 
figured i in the Bot, Mag., pl. 4731 ; also fou sd in the 
Himalayas, but ranging more to the north-west, and 
at higher є elevations. 
L. medeoloides,—A rather small-flowered and not 
very showy plant, having the habit of the Martagons, 
and an erect flower, found in damp woods of North 
Japan near Hakodadi, and in the Corean Archipelago. 
L. avenaceum, which has also the leaves and habit 
С і d xem 
of gardens, which is ct plant. The real one 
wl be known by its "iios double stipular or ета 
: the in Siebold’s plate, also 
“эд ed from it iu the Flore des 
in the high mountains of Japan, 
of a Mart artagon, with small ted and pendulous 
Itis най 
and may 
possibly be in cultivation already ; if so, I should be 
= пей hear of it ; but all that I have seen are wrongly 
onclusion, I will thank M. Leichtlin in the 
name of all plant нше ed m many euge l addi- 
tions to our garden e has introduced, and 
Es ое HY. Di may long be ME is dn ат his labour 
VENUS’ FLY-TRAP. 
By THOS. A. С. [BALFOUR, MD, ЕБЕ СРЕ: 
(Continued from р. 8.) 5 
2. Contraction, or closure of the leaf and of its 
marginal spines or cilia. 
'This property of кимы, like that of irrita- 
bility, has a distinct relat he wants of the plant. 
No pop almost ч Кыш iara suited for 
food or not, will, if placed on one of the sen X 
hairs, be Чоо wed is contraction ; pit it is only w 
the material so introduced is ca able of giv ving saiit 
ment to the plant that the contraction continues, 
This peculiarity of the Conseil is exhibited in the 
following pee nces :— 
n Jul at 3 P.M., a piece of wood was placed 
on a large Ё af of a Dio опа, а закий би 
it. It was, however, too large to be с led, so 
that the wood was seen with the arena spines 
embracing it 
July 6. L At II A.M. the leaf is quite open. At 
d however, it was found closed, which was 
e wood being so light as to be 
n knocked against the hairs by the draughts in 
us 
Oe the gem day (July 4), at 3 P.M., a piece of dry 
plaster whic h had fallen from the wall, was put on 
another leaf of the same plant, and it was at once 
caught and conceale 
July 6.—At 3 P. i ‘the leaf was quite open, but was 
алей by i sge 
uly 7.—At 3. ДӨ р. м. leaf again open. 
og same: J uly 4), but on the leaf of another 
active Dion of i ч c was placed, which 
was gra asped i instantly and vigorously, 
July 6.—At 3 P eaf quite ‹ open, but on pressing 
pp — against the аша hairs the leaf again 
T 
to, after the Dionzea leaf had ope 
beside the js iece of Fuchsia, że., on July 8, at 2 P.M, 
Leaf à > = - P irritation. 
—Leaf 
= 15.—Fly again ed Ea shrivelled one, so I 
moved it and si on the leaf a bluebottle fy (which 
had been dead for fully a week). Leaf closed by 
irritation. 
July 16. Ses quite open (probably from fly being 
= duly e cae о blu 
17.— in open, On canines e- 
LS aM n to E oe? and brittle, and 
nothing could be squeezed from removed 
Ed aliving flyintroduced ; the leaf pim and remained 
till the 28th, by which vd s e fly was quite 
exhausted of its substance. Linnzeus believed that it 
was in conseq vere di of the living 
and 
о oe of the blades occurr 
з in n th f a fly одаў digested by a 
e case o 
yi 15 а fly of this geni as placed o: 
a ба] чайы leaf of а Dio C E instantly 
fe ; e lashes also were 
closed by irritation by kni 
at right angles. 
judy nthe leaf was open so far that the lashes 
were not ak eee. and the 
trap. 
The leaf no еа quite Closed 
i.e., for eight days, and was по кв CN till the 
eh similar instances where the leaves 
Deal 95 tS the hairs bein a. without 
if 1 14 deceive my fends and so 
T now tied el t ml 18 keep what I had бе 1 
them, just as in the case soe a little rebellious patient 
the fond mother often envelopes the on = 
о гн in her end. ther 
e leaf with the 
on July 8 
di not seem at all digested, but 
the small ik: lime which were near the sensitive 
hairs looked somewhat as if they had been wet, a 
ha yr in ;” and as the denoüment, in the 
mer 
of the gone is thet the jam alone is given to be 
sup he pill is ema into the NM so in the 
end of r re : w taken out, 
and the leaf irritated and m aa to close « on the fly, 
which it did with lashes at right angles 
I mentioned also the case with unm iron nail; here 
I was more successful with my wiles. On Tuly a 
dead fly was added to the iron, and though on the 
8th the leaf was again open, a little coaxing got it to 
ained so till July when fr e 
а 
proven fatal, and that my success i 
been more disastrous to me than my defeat in the 
ast one. 
In some cases, T the leaf qu^ close and 
continue so, as W tal sho 37 has been given to 
tie be af by the administration о f some po sedis or by 
cutting across the pet е; in this latter case the leaf 
коры. closes slow y 
chlorofor orm, some of the substances tried 
cases from 
o onia, ca 
ite of soda, sulphate, of Mida, 
po енй of soda, sewer of copper, 
chloride of strontian was use ed, and also sul- 
phate ey bk the leaves remained open though they 
died. 
At this time I E eri erai no posological 
table to guide me the amount to be given in a 
ici i iew, and hie е plants ane 
nistere 
s there was eae one experiment with each s 
due named, weight can be attached to the з 
of closure or ае but as they are facts I record 
them 
The full contraction is not completed at once, and 
hence Dr. Curtis Шир. m that he *'has liberated 
flies and sped icem 
or joy could h 
his observati me » to leen 
dp solely by joy or du requi 
he expression *' sac ability," t 
av 
ares — — in the evening 
but did not attem 
The process of соп traction is this : At first the sides 
осо MEAM a at the upper edge, Меда: а. сов: 
і which the — insect is co 
tively free from pressure ; but some time kawaii a 
distinct comp of the two pem may be noticed 
at about f nch below the u 
and ultimately one of the sides may become quite con- 
vex internally, fitting into the teneis of the opposite 
blade. H 
ence, ultimately, the creatures, if of a soft 
nature—such caterpillars, aec pen spi 
are squeezed flat, but мое with a hard external 
overing, ¢.g., beetles, resist the pressure, so that the 
skeleton may be found retaining its Birds form and 
f the leaf is not single but 
e contraction 
of the 
previously digested fly | 
was removed and a frei caught fy was put alive rep 
till the 24th, 
that thee nis have not coma befor 
(To be continued.) y ud OO 
