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260 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [AUGUST 29, 1874 
i: t the time | the Paid of each lobe of the leaf. For about a century = pitchers was that when they grew they contai: iol 
os ee ay be ing S proportion to the history of thepiant was very little advanced. ives n 1829, Burnett wrote a paper containin nga ioe wae. a 
h ape ers sehen enture to say. Fors years forges Linnzeus wrote, Dr. Curtis, of Wilmington, ripen ideas, expressed in a somewhat quaint fashion, in 
i; me oT nbd ‘ae a hemland Maree North Carolina, eoe the lowing accu at rhi e very strongly insisted on the existence of a true 
of this kin | I can sugg wi to be had. which | Scien 6 ach half of the leaf is a little | digest € process in the case arracenia, analogous to , 
addition during the season t pens is to be vag concave on the inner side, oe are placed miri delicate | that which takes place in the stomach of an animal. 
is ore than a ée of peashells. After hair-like organs s order that ect can ur knowledge of the power of Sarracenia is is. 
RE green Peas, reject any of the bi that are} ha dly apace ; without interfering wi ay them etty 
as 
bs riage ruised, 
oi 
spoonful 
more, Wi re that none of the peashells stick to sha 
bottom, en pass the aiaa through a large-hol 
cullender, and add to it eeze out of the 
peashells ‘with th e back en train 
in hg a finer-holed cullender, and it is 
ira to heighten i as een Peas or other 
n 
sou of and dishes è /a 
Fardiniere, into hick: vegetable enter ree. ? 
E aaa her vegetable I am afraid of is Cucumber. 
swell find x digestible 
‘Cook it, then, and you 
Slice it in e hose way, Peppe t, put it in 
saucepan with a lump of b a hex let it stew 
until quite tender, serapi its "incipidity with a dash 
of vinegar, and then serve in the middle of 
se digressions have made 
us forget our little dinner eee Shall the roast 
be a fowl, with salad ? tuce ?” 
very thing. nd simple.’ 
“I beg yo syad on; o easy an tee ar Have 
you tried yet ‘furnished a apartments’ salad? No; 
‘salad is a grave important affair. Let us agree 
o tothis,.. We will dra wa: dress the salad 
mine 1 wil sve bard not to o be called «oyu 
Senp 1 do sometimes s sign Coguinus : 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 
In the de ogy an 
President, 
the following address o 
CARNIVOROUS opie 
I have eng for the subject of my address to you 
m the chair in which the Counel of the British 
me the honour ate placing me, the 
me of o rother-organisms— 
plants. Various observers have described with more or 
essa curai the habits oly uch v 
y ww ed 
se paai acceptance which 
they ite s recently the rs has acquired 
anew interest, from the Mr. Darwin into 
theg sa which paria m thet placing albuminous 
substances on the lea enia reide Baba i , and 
(oy which, intlie 0 Opinion of a std eminent physio t, prove, 
in the case o ionzea, th 
t this plant digests exactly 
exactly the same way, that 
With these researches Mr. 
is still actively engaged, and it has been with 
of rendering him 
partment of Zoology and Botany the 
Ear: Hooker, C.B., Pres.R.S,., delivered 
when the two es suddenly collapse and enclose the 
prey, with a force 
The fringe of Aer: of the opposite sides of a leaf inter- 
lace, like t fi 
nthe Dion i a 
pretty oe especially the age which urtis 
had made His first idea that ‘‘ the leaf had 
r, which was then 
the power of dissolving aaa batir 
allowed to flow g 
annaia 
patata, attempted to eat his way o 
disco’ was still alive, and m 
hole through the side of the leaf, but was evidently 
very weak. openi e leaf the fluid was , 
i i , and was” 
— overcoming him. | 
to close upon him, he soon died.” 
of 
o nised Na 
hear = t certain Stoar s which Dr. Sanderson, at 
the i tion of Mr. Darwin, had m made, proved to 
demonstration pes tae Je leaf of Dionzea contracts, the 
sely similar oot those which 
meses “contracts Not re the 
ion in this soatta plant “Tike those 
als, but t e phenom nena of contractility agree 
with those of neraed also 
Sun-DEws, DROSERA. 
Not confined to a single distric zE New World, but 
distnibuted over the tem mperate parts mp both he Bahok 
in sandy and m marshy places, are the curious pianis c alle g 
; species of the Drosera. T 
at much length the interesting history of the Su 
to Mr. Darwin we debted for the latest and most 
important additions to the facts established th 
fore the i investigations arwin had ed other 
work thes 
that , the f the 
f Mr. phenomena was very little appreciated. Oniy r few 
ciai 
VENUS' FLY TRAP, 
gaot Tin Ellis, a Reha Socio: 
a drawi 
ago, a French physiological botanist, 
after mentioning the eati of Ellis and Curtis with 
t to 
eaen expressed his Meta that the m 
that i pisme absorbed oer substances, 
evidently in dissprectmen with out nowiedse of ve ‘the 
function of leaves, and the ‘we ourse of veg a table 
nutrition, to des ing serigatp stomps ys Perhaps 
if the Droseraceæ were an isola ed case pof 
= Sommers Pigeon of this kind, tafe aii be 
But I think I I shall be 
ae E k onl 
able to show you that this is by t no means the case. We 
have now reason t to believe that are many instances 
of these carnivorous habits in neste mag 
no 
is lies the ia common put this ne Pianis wbich have 
pi s account a ase 
which the e insects a oii from the 
The leaf 
o 
recently, p aitai fallen 
himself to the task of asce 
with 
hich rain can chase 
ere is opioa much still to be 
learned with regard Sarracenia, and I hope tht 
American botanists will eats Teisi A to this t. a 
DARLINGTONIA, 
I cannot take 1 of Sarracenia bebe a short 
Pepe? of i res near aliy, pore as ore wonder- 
n 
Sierra Nerad da < Pre rnia, far west o 
habited by Sarr: 
a m Brolessoe Asa Gray, is 
o.informat 
flative country, but 
tion in the young states of both for 
inok dismiss Darlingtonia without fs poli 
what appears to me a most 
curio 
Wica is, that = change from the slender, tu ) 
mo 7 te inflated, closed-m outhed a 
absolutely mec in the individual plant. 
pitc in an intermediate stage of development. 
a matter of no little nat in itself, | derives 
erest from the fact that a oe g bor 
ent those o 
Open mouths and erect lids, and the 
he Sarracenias with clo: mout ths a 
The combination of repre. 
Wying toads pe a small order cannot se t be re 
ignificant fact in the 
of th 
s pe hold the doctrine of evolution, 
ANT-NUTRITION, 
PLA 
In what 1 have =e = raga e si the most stri 
instances of plants 
t 
State, They wi 
d nitrates and 
ild up with starch, or some 
albuminoids or protein -p 
sustentation and — 
nothing be m 
a 
en 
a 
in a form yeni tat ca e 
their own nu trition. Yet there is 
Twa in analog 
pri N life. 
borrow their nutritive 
ready and this ts in effect what a 
The absolute dit 
