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JULY 4, 1874.) 
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pure tjere stripe, the white predominating. I a 
sure ust find favour with all adm 
It must be perfectly 
OWS in Colorada, and I also found it at 
rratun of Erythronium at p. 831 
pal, E; 1874) the ieee should proceed from ths 
of the bulb, about a third from the bottom, 
instead of at the bottom, as figured. 
COMBINED HEATING AND FIRE 
EXTINGUISHING T 
THE plan whic 2 illustrates a 
= method of supplying a Ba ca and ah water to sac A | 
of a +» Which, | 
floor ouse, museum, picture gallery, &c. 
_ commends itself, not only for its general utility, but for 
its special value in case o n the words of the 
_ patentees, Messrs. J. G. Sm tig & tes » Harwood 
=- Road, Fulham, S. We, we may add that 
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erea „valves, „that the heal 
independently of the. cold-water apparatus, and 
the fatter independently of the former; while, at the same 
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so sige should a fire occur when the heating be tia us 
is in action, it would be more rapidly extin guished 
i also in the event of a 
apparatus is at rest, it might 
immediately be set in action and hot one be circu- 
lating in the pipes in less than half an bi 
A, Hot-water cistern to act for serv sige wate a 
"C ae ater cistern—one or more may 
C, Ball-cock and loop service to co old. ware 
D, Safet seo sere and circulating box in connecting 
with hot-water cister 
E, Self-acting double-action valve, stopping the com- 
: municating of hot water to cold-water 2 and open 
ing to admit supply to hea ae appar. 
F, Co a water services for general peer or other 
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G, Self acting double-action valve a Bs ye ade supply 
and exhaust of cold-water cistern, ich the whole 
water in the cisterns i T isule for the 
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become available for hydrants on 
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aratus, and so 
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of the water in 
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FIG, 2,—SMEATON AND CO,’s COMBINED HEATING AND FIRE-EXTINGUISHING APPARATUS, 
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3 hies ot hore. es come i nto instant O, Monn , which may be fixed Bore tea or 
= action, sol vende per i he whole of the water in e lotwater pipes, Which may Bo fxe 
= both as also that which may be received from | in sections or Ror ME bk regained <. : 
any external force from s mains er supply ; P, Vertical hot-water mains from boiler safety 
_ and, further, should such force be greater than that expansion ci x in connection with hoe wate 
_ obtained e pressure e; y the columns istern, 
_ of water, the valves adjust themselves, and render 
yo Bi all Wesco that bee! THE TOURIST’S FLORAL GU 
By this an ent it observed that the | 
_ greatest facility is afforded for fire-hydrants being fixed | “iar 
action valves simple construc- | away from isiti part of the British 
tion, ‘so fitted. that er cannot set fast or get out of islands either on business or pleasure, it a practice 
ont being entirely self-acting and adjusting themselves | to len age , in which I record all 
to es of pressure.” the interesting or rare species of indigenous p I 
The most prominent features claimed for t meet with, which are local in their divtabantons, I 
patent rite AA apparatus may be bri riefly Sepma thus have always in my possession a perman eres 
follows :—The certainty of having a upply | which is doutdy valuable if I make a 
of water at command the same nei 
at any moment it raphe: 
fire- 
ighbourhood ; ee plan I paneer atroi iy 
botanist to ong 
sti a 
w a far richer 
fies tite ded the gree time ; not that I am 
oe reference to — in the new and old 
series 
many of the rarer species 
are lost to the flora, but they o a 
and do not occur 
scarce, 
formerly. 
fact of so many visitors going there for the purpose of 
the autumnal months. Most visitors 
sea-bathing in 
ce to carr piem aap little memento of 
his is either a pretty flowering 
is this the case if shells 
This can be easily accounted for, Boni ; 
RN 
ood phanerogamous plants a notably the 
Orobanche A pak which flourishes abundance 
about 
E British plants. It is a <a plant that would n 
arded as either beautiful valuable Al 
as of a florist; it “ori robust habit, with small 
yellow petals coe Loy agen foliage the latter, besides 
possess ing bones arin pe mate: i 
slightly r 
vat 
Limes nen e soils are proverbially rich in a botanical 
point of — and both the Little an = Great Ormes 
Heads contain many rare species; in fact, North 
Wales had been noted for furnishing the herbaria of 
British botanists for man ed opie with rare plants. 
Some of 2 earliest re ical t as, for 
iiie; &c. were to ri moun cond 
W le p! 
; but a0 lace is perhaps so Sethe 
neighbourhood of ~ cg rs Let us hope’ it twill | 
e 
continue so. Th s divided into two distinct 
parts, if + may be alowed 4 to speak of it as the 
spring and autumn To observe all the species, 
in M in in August, but the most gay and 
handsome s bloom l Primr and 
Cowslips abound on the slo nd pem in the 
-wildest ae and May or the early part of June 
ly pea spring igs 
of the seg near the sea, and 
h t 
s it occur so -n for some 
to tire the eyes w gaz e 
upo its b brilliant sky-blue petals, nd of or hybrid 
raat Bh very much resembling the ‘Tandfeld Oxlip, . 
is fou "Gloddaeth, but taone or both the oe 
a can be deteci its formation 
found growing otk, it might be mistaken for the te 
Oxlip. I have recei ar plant from the 
I will first give a “lt of i found in early 
summer, then close my paper with the 
plants. Another rare species, Scrophularia 
is | in a lane at Gl - one 
the lane it is plentiful for perhaps an hundred yards. 
In our works on British botany it is ally reg 
as a suspicious, ¢ er doubtful, native ; 
privileged to see it in this locality, 
have growing for a long 
scruples about its nativity almost 
botanical lookers-out w say—Ho 
confined to a solitary village lane? It is not so; it 
liage 
vegetation sii abit, siá 
cannot eee i ih any 
Sree 
