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fessor, Sibthorp, nl ke been exploring the botany 
Greece, and collec the materials published so 
magnificently а after his death a s the Flora Greca. y 
тейтін tto Барак, апа оп 
Apri I, 1797, 3t s figur ed e Botanical 
Magazine, One of Si ibthorp 5 ne gra was the 
celebrate d Dr. (afterwards Sir h, founder 
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still living, Lady area héřself, а ‘‘ perpetual Rose” in- 
deed, who on May 12, 1875, attained e 102d year. 
That a plant so equi fragrant should A the 
renowned name of Verbena, by a kind of m e botan- 
he umers' Verbena appears, however, 
to be an oil prepared fr one of the fragrant East 
India mon-grasses, probably the Andropogon 
citratus. 
The le a and purple Verbenas, now so 
Mery employ 
possessed of any of the qualities the Aier 
botané, “they do good service, nevertheless, і in Morel 
from colour. Desti iny seems to insist that ail 
inheritors of the title shall, in one way or another, 
it. The first pe most 
showy of the modern Verbenas, the V m:edri- 
folia or Melindres, was introduced from Bue aoe Ayres 
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(Concluded from p. 138.) 
I HAVE been speaking of healthy plants, in which all 
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- the functions were normally discharged ; but we 
hological as well as physiological conditions to 
- consider, and unfortunately many of th iti 
cult of digestion, and ought never to be indulged in by 
a Dionza : such is cheese ; hard boiled albumen they 
can digest pretty well, but this coagulated and com- 
pressed casein they cannot manage. Mr. Canby lost 
one of his patients among the Dionæas by ordering it 
a к of cheese, and my own experience is equally 
P s July 8, 1874, I had eleven patients under my 
: time, and to one of these a diet of cheese 
_ жаз еа б After Mr. Canby's experience I felt 
sen digested. However, as he had a healthy look 
and a firm grasp, I was not so alar 
is next note is a short жы; on July ro, ve noon:— 
‘Leaf closed, not injured." The ing had 
apparently ceased, which, with the gessi appear- 
ance, was re-assuring. 
July 11, 3 p.M.—Much the same as yesterda 
At 4 P.M., и! July 13, he was still quite healthy 
and imis close 
July 14.— ac as previo 
usly. 
On тау 15 v had so little time that I scarcely saw 
my patient. 
July 16 contains notes of the other patients, but his 
case is omitted, probably from being mu uch im statu 
quo. 
On July 18, 4.15 P.M., the short notice is, ** Chee 
closed," which means that he had still i акле 
muscular power етн 
July 20, 3.30 Р.м.—Ѕат 
But on July 21 my mei was | excited, for though 
the muscu ular power w 
“© Still closed, but yellowish on blades, and two lashes 
non a eh aic ” These — were gr iua 
and, suppo med the wo 
канай ef бе case, I had prudently witha awn. "D 
find no further attendance marked, s was on the 
thirteenth day. 
othing is more нч. than overloading the 
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I а пегаПу been very 
particular in the amount which I ad prescribed, but 
-on one occasion after I had left, Mr. Lindsay had, in 
defiance of all proper dietetic rules, gorged four fine 
healthy Dionzea leaves to such an extent that on the 
following day, July 6, I was horrified at finding some 
of the beef still sacking out of the mouths of three of 
ulling | the meat out of its throat by my 
aving it from threatened suffocation 
h mime yl "ripe and all d 33] was 
at an end, as I find on July 13 the note—*' still 
closed by the ues crossing, but the blades are 
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hat date, however, a nasty jaundiced appear- 
xcessive amount o 
ee n their cases was very seriously impaired, 
ofensive e 'eructations testified, 
aoken. Juss. —The three surfeited 
sed (this ж the ninth day after 
erably digested." 
openin еа А, е, a seemed less 
pert, but it was low and there was 
scarcely any perceptible smell, Flui id here was also 
em acid. On the of these two leaves there 
e slight darkish on lined lobe on the out- 
gni opening the third leaf a part of the meat м 
dark snd projecting һе tween the margins, Here there 
This leaf has a shrivelled look ВСН and also а 
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achs is not large, two 
ently sufficient to satisfy them, if 
eit is extremely danger- 
ous, for, though they аву "ибне escape a fatal 
issue, they may suffer ong and severely from stomach 
complaint. 
All their diseases, however, are 
proper diet, but when the aT health d is- 
the secretion is not poured out in sufficient amot to 
digest the food, as the following example will show : 
—А yellowish looking leaf, which, if we had been 
he days when the doctrine ‘of signatures was 
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infallible cure to у one suffering from hepatic de- 
een t ; this leaf, ^ selected, and a smal 
within it, On opening it afterwards 
the Jnd was found dry, and so was the beetle, but o 
deal of fluid v 
pressing е beetle ptr a good 
forced ou ing that in quen 
| ill- health of the leaf there had been no power of 
MAP, fluid, sini benoe the contents of the beetle 
not been re 
Amount capable | E РЕ СЕИР —As I have 
already said, two ie or two spiders seem 
to t-t i rd Eng ‘digest with 
comfort, to itself at least, for k som Now, e 
multiply these by er of jg leaves, we shall 
d the amount o 
d age by its foliar stomach 
5 Teast, a plant of Dionæ igest. The leaves 
on an average, about six to each plant, so that if 
all the leaves were equally successful in their capture 
we should have a dozen of flies as the amount of food 
devoured ул the leaves. 
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legs seemed nearly transparent; there w. gp rtion 
que and , but ressing it E Yid nothing 
On this, the ео day, Ries Si xis 
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almost open (Z2, he Sa amit day), and ы 
remains of «his spider, which pas of small amoun 
were remove now it was found that the leat 
would not Ait on irritation by another spider, or by 
the eer of a knife, or by touching it with the 
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м exierat iedit finie —Duchartre 
objecied to this of abso e ground that 
lance whe ош nowledge of the 
of fate ves, and to hole course of the 
parr ae of getables and етого was not e 
seriously entertained. . This argument reminds one of 
the miserably fallacious arguments against miracle 
is in both mere 2 principii. 
All plants are kon eiim d like the eee e if 
for t of allowing it ra a own the chan- 
Aie, petiole, go so of reaching the — roots 
Е the plant. Mr. Canby at опе time thought that 
uch was the case, but he afterwards обидой his 
mistake. 
к о answers may be given to кт above objection. 
A a healthy Dionæa, where the natural food of 
the plant a been a and in the tool amount, 
o flu аа п the petiole. IAS flies were 
es of and pieces of lit- 
mus were Egi ion + e petioles on Sept. 26, and. EU 
on Sept. 28, at 4 P.M., the litmus was not in the - 
least — Lm d. On Sept. h 
Oct. 3, and n: - this latter date 
one of the beside was open a considerable 
quantity of fluid of Е acid nur was found. This 
he leaf is found quite dry on the 
jr with only the slightest reyre, if even that, 
remains, and Ed t б-ге; the m time to time 
the s of change (Se on, and t 
gradual бтп of the am 
xample, of чер leaf of Dionzea on 
. On P uly 18 ben andae very little difference 
xternal appearance from what had been 
veal, and 
found 
beef was 
ina soft thin шр Т7 in small bulk. On the 24th 
almost all — and on the 25th small thin dry flakes 
үзү all that re 
In this с à the whole process of digestion and 
absorption e e twenty. -four days, but the absorption 
seemed to at a much more rapid rate towards 
the end, 
The first answer proves that there was no escape 
from the leaf, and the second declares that. after a 
up sd bei ea noes Aedes had ta 
I fea n = difficulty in 
establishing te fact al absorptio the roots of 
plants, or zi the lacteals and утра of ndi 
unders that some one has that. the 
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I tried the follow 
failed, in йа 
the absorben Ye or vessels. On Ju 
which I T baa наша 
uly 16, 1874, 1 i 
put red or 
by messe them in a оой of cochineal or in oo 
