IHE 
DECEMBER 4, 1875] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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alwa: cd to notice the behaviour 
Es. ‚К pression, of plants with which w e 
he, he снага under whch 
tel greatly altered or mo ified. On this 
will s by Colonel GRA he hand- 
toez ted to the plants collected by hi 
led is journey from Zanzibar t ypt which has 
Bes ; issued by the Linnean Society are often 
the "interes. Some of our common iym epu 
ifor e encountered by him upon his journey ; one o 
pu assume an appearance widely differing 
ater fom their normal one r common Nettle (Urtica 
an dioica), for example, g 7 or 8 feet high, with 
white roots 2 feet in length, and was 
handsome plant, the large leaves drooping 
lue ver the flowers ; the upper portion only 
on af was NUN it being bare ON: p^ = s 
те The root is use the nati 
ome -. Ee. which pows 3 feet higb, E pomo 
use devoured b Our common re ed (Phragmites 
| at | ommuni 5 t sea for I100 miles 
ers, 3 he flutes and whistles of 
the agonda are made of this reed, which is said t 
ake : arm in Nyassa, where the natives 
"use it. spona Dactylon is used by the 
and their only bedding, being place the 
үз. uts. The leaves of ка nigrum 
; ten. 
var- 
n — In the Bulletin “А: e Ro и а 
d ye he conceived Фе notion 
t of ; g a handful of tabl t 
out [ше effect is said to be eminently satis- 
ach doy; fine foliage and plump ies in the place 
p growth and shrivelled berri 
PHOSPHORESCENCE. 
THE subject of ee in fungi has bee 
the Gardeners’ 
brought under our notice b Ў 
urst, Petersfield, who kindly forwarded a rotten 
1 Bs — a week ago they observed in 
| ous се which was found 
King first sent on to u mall pieces a 
D a large piece of ы rotten stump for 
Te чар probably belongs to the Oak, 
| King's man states that he has rial os seen 
com them- 
in a state of phosphorescence. note 
accompani firs pum it was stated 
off, but on 
eners’ "Chronic ^ eris 
to lot of luminous 
a a te 
pu it th 
e w ctl 
Et Кыйгы about ed the glare 
The luminosity w not, 
it м account ап; 
inded me d b grins fling in their мау; m moreover, th i 
У, 
uliar white pa exceptional case and altogether gratuitous, as it is 
um characteristic of Polyporus | evi ently not essential, even if it be at all needful, 
ns the well-known black | for such dn in the daro cag of their species. 
orticalis were | There n the table me plants of the 
fs threads oso Drosera rotundi with. their withered d 
ere was no odour. Cui snl: still adl ‚ showin 
decay tits Td i qe gone their vd company with a d wet 
4 ete етл "d QUI Rayos and „рейин without any other support, and 
d hout | having gained this end, vis wells 
one of the suckers О cme questions the presence of insets on hese | 
commonly seen in some species of Peronospora ; this 
mycelium we have here engraved (fig. 148), together 
with a few cells of ge wood, to show 
was a good deal of amorphous жимдо matter 
present, and indeed in some plac is a 
shining where no threads AA be d ec 
ood is a non-conduct 
t This ight po 
in y "mui in the wood (thou bs it hal ok 
been artificially damped by me), for water is a well- 
nductor of electrici 
о sm cid gas has a immediate effect of de- 
troying life and putting a stop to combustion. No 
flame will live for an instant in et as, and, for the 
o glass jars with 
gntposes of experiment, I filled 
acid gas, generated 4 pio uring sulphuric 
acid into a proper prepared j ис containing powdered 
chalk an and water. Into the two glass jars зай сагропіс 
r most lumin- 
regards lowering the ligh u 
in the bottles during t the ening, but the p 
phorescence of the wood suffered little or no abate- 
Os xygen gas, when applied to burning objects, 
causes them to burn with much greater rapidity and 
brilliancy, but, on the phosphorescent wood being 
by heating 
oxygen mix! it flame, and collecting 
itin an inverted bottle ciety filled ‘with water) 
i duds 
Ak 
ТА кс 
Kar 
SPAWN AND WOOD CELLS, 
nlarged 500 diameters. 
(Black spawn at base not luminous). ! 
Fic, 148.—LUMINOUS FUNGUS 
E 
If the Mig ei of 
but 76 
little or no effect was manifest. 
ee. which 
in the air, but whenever the 
tu ration with w -— 
not alway nguish the hr. ; 2d, byi QUA in 
boiling water 3d, by freezing in solid ice. I 
even ma ight recover after ев. "teste: 
W. С. S: 
CARNIVOROUS PLANTS. 
From the number of experiments made. with 
carnivorous plants, and the Py зне of the 
ters, seems beyond 
Hise tia pie | 
plants, but in what capacity are Joe there ?—for dead 
flies in different stages of deca d put trefaction are 
ut s it in 
it b yri 
Here then 
olding the €: E the or a nd, however e 
the freak may ae rve to pio et how ез 
reg! be diverted fron: It mal course m 
eed a monster that is no friend to the 
their fronds 
their spore aga Lok T and t 
smunda ane "ibat its 
e Flowering Fern abes 
decis itself by m 
case no 
be their lives.' 
e among aged for elbow-room, from 
o e poles down to the 
timber, the 
how: w 
ow peaceful in age ; its history would border on the 
ime. The one grand object = its thirty or forty 
years’ incessant labour—for it is all the 
round—has been to perfect itself and propagate 
its species. 
is per эф oe iable 
, for when erase t вза 
along the ground, and pr 
T 
a 
fei 
38 
shru ich we 
I it qued meanly a 
cling to 
angling the tree that supports them. 
of the Ivy creeping on — ныз” 
Pune ands, change pe of 
nor twine, 
d vetito flower and ‘fruit, and all its 
wee end. 
а vdd plants may be 
“iHover odd these and many other plants may be 
above their or i with they 
began to take root do and feed in the dark; — 
s the i would seem to use 
as , and their motto 
must be “ Slay and eat." Now though climbers 
ers, by of their tendrils, twist and turn to 
feel their way, like a blind man gropt r his sl 
se 
insectivorous plants have not even 
nts that bear tendrils, and 
pas that has to d upon insects for its supplies 
seems put to the very Arb round of t desc 
to be very awkwardl: new ion, ` 
well as below i йы; but the sap above and 
