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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
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en it, the Sweet Oreads’ Fern, for assuredly, 
if ever ne al phs of the mountains looked after 
plants for amara sake, wo ver skip one 
o ladies Say, so elegantly ‘‘ worked” 
with the ri. the Orchid-house, of 
course, there no great abundance 0 
mieta > he 
most interes a Phalzenopsis 
iflora sain aurea, said to be th the only example of 
Bodie h ea above, and m 
would do for the Saracen architects i ve Songan: 
vill milar, aùd 
= l 
eaves. very pretty anı pain 
to the two O kinds of flowers in te Xyloph 
o idea of 
for use in a w 
found, In regard to bed 
fin 
ansy or : olet s suggest by it, 
wedding bouquet nothing lovelier can i 
ding a it may be add 
nalis, with the striped Variety of Dactylis pear 
Planted by Her Majesty when the 
Princ Victoria, in 632) now a ome tree, 
an fe) annually wit A veritable 
t, a bond fide c of the tree of ’32 
fro 
was supplied, very happily, for the Prince of Wales, 
when at eae a o and a half yearsago he planted 
the ‘* Prince’s Oak.” 
Mr. Spsed, whose Courtesy a hospitality to 
visitors run so thor 
oughly abreast of his immense 
horticultural knowledge, and superb skill in fruit cul- 
_ ture most especi Chatsworth even more 
than Chatsworth to the Professional man. thi 
d like tol is the time of Gees first 
introduction to ngas Pa of the Black Hamburgh 
pe. Can any reader of the Gardeners fa 
inform him? G 
ae er ere 
~ CARNIVOROUS PLANTS. 
Tue full text of Dr. Hooker’ ee on this sub- 
ject to the Biol the 
Association at Belfi 
been figured in our columns. 
SARRACENIA, 
„It is evident that there are two very different types of 
in an matoa of the spega 
be t 
or less ; and those 
a es rain can hardy 
To the first of these belongs the well-known S, 
purea, with os pitchers, and a lid so 
direct all the ra 
al a 
pur- 
disposed as to 
n that falls upon it also into the pitcher ; 4 
upper surface is guided down 
= outside ot Mé back "of the pitcher, as if to prevent 
in ng © sed my latter. 
d group belong S. psittacina and S, 
va 
ues of the internal surfaces of the pitchers are 
ingripa utiful. They have been described in one 
n 
Q, 
hh 
< 
minute honey-secreting glands 
highly coloured than any otia part of the pitcher, in 
order to attract insects to the honey. 
2. conducting meng shiek is opaque, formed o 
glassy cells, which are produced into deflexed, short, 
conical, s 
spinous pro SoA. 
ping like the tiles of a house, form a 
an insect slips, and affo = no foothold to an insect 
attempting to crawl in 
e (seen in S E dhe eaey which 
i the fer bc of the 
Now, it is a very curious thing t . purpurea, 
which has an open pitcher, so formed as to receive and 
re o honey secretion has 
seen to be 
which (as stated abov ve) Ih 
nd i in which no glands occur on the detent tive 
ace, 
posibility of this plant either having no proper r secretion 
oia om or only giving it off after the pitcher has been 
-mouthed pitchers and n 
rr S flava, which. has o 
— ee dular surface, I find glands in the hair, but not pore 
detentive surface, am 
inthe middle or lower 
gg that S. flava =< fuid, but under what pre- 
cise conditions I am not a I have found none but 
what may have Spri "aecidenitally introduced in the few 
cultivated 'specim which examined, either in 
the full-grown sate or in the ilf grow, when the lid 
arches ove pitcher. 
ing glands 
together with a pianak on the outer surface 
itcher, as seen by Vo purpurea. 
Of the pitchers with bed F hosths: I aee examined 
olaris only, whose tissues closely resemble 
That it secretes a fluid noxious to 
t, t 
three pitchers so differently 
flava, purpurea, an olaris, 
such differences in their tissues, should 
The fact that insects norm: 
the pitchers are secretiv 
secretive, whether they secrete water or a solven 
peso: absorb Saima 
ucts : 
Itis ie likely, that just as the saccharine exudation 
nly icular period 
in Se elite o ot he pitcher, so the digestive functions may 
e itchers finally decay, and part, at an 
t supply some ‘men to the plant 
= r fertilising the ground in wens 
e wing of the pitcher, © 
of the 
ustralia, an he Seychelles Islands on the African 
Pa miee a aré abundantly produced, especially 
sent very considerable m 
ternal structure, and vary greatly in size, from. ae more 
which I have here from the mountains of mn g 
itchers which, ee: ey lid, measures a foot and = 
alf, and its lis large enough to drown 
small animal o 
eprom tae s the e pitcher of Nepenthes is less com- 
plica no on the whole than that of Sarracenia, th 
ome of su f ore highly spona 
The pitcher itself is here not a t m eaf, ¢ 
Sarracenia, nor is it a transformed | 
tip, and re 
seen terminating the mid-rib ae the leat of certain plants. 
It is furnished with a stalk, often a very long one, which 
he stem 
pany of twisting like a tendril round 
objects, and thus aiding the plant in climbing to a great 
hogh in the forest. 
most species the pitchers are of two forms, one a 
pertainic to the young, the other to the old state of the 
inflat i 
the outside, which are probably guides to lead insects to 
e mouth ; the lid is smalle: open, and the 
whole interior surface ds. 
plant the pitchers are usually uch longer, wer, and 
less inflated, trumpet-shaped, the w are nar- 
rower, less fringed, or almost absent. The lid is larger 
the pitcher is nah ge with secreting glands, the 
part presenting a ue analogous to the conducting 
tissue of Sarrac ey but very y different _anatomically, 
The difference in gas o f pitcher, 
if considered in reference to dak different positions on 
e mind, that the 
m aye ther p A 
back anh T ex CEO eveloped in 
fate Pky tube that descends into the pitcher, eer: 
Fook, t Fenny: of insects, or into a row of incurved 
to retain a 
bene represented by the 
is 5 here ì invariably present at all stages of growth of the 
o, 
g 
"The: attractive, ae of Nepenthes are two—those, 
namely, of the e under sur- 
face of the lid, wiak i eis, : bat 
with honey-secreting g often in great a 
s consi of of spheri of cells ach 
embedded in a eee of thei, and encircled 
by a guard-ring of glass-like cellular tissue. As in Sarra- 
cenia, the lid and mouth of the Daite “ade more hi 
coloured than any other with the view OF attract 
other specii 
secretion of kero ba a lid so placed 
insect y from the pitcher instead o 
2 distance down the 
itcher is an opaque glaucous aire precisely resem- 
b i the cern 3 surface 
fine network of og Far il arn glass-like cuticle, 
pm studded with minute reniform 
Me Test of the pitcher is entirely occupied with the 
ti which consists ofa cellular floor crowded 
hat, as was ind expect 
they secrete the fluid which is Feces ll in the perge 
of the pis cher before this opens, and that the fluid 
always ac 
The fluid, though invariably present, occupies a 
comparatively small portion of the — surface of 
the pitcher, and is co! before the lid opens. » 
When the fluid is emptied out of a fully formed pi 
b= t has not received animal matter it 
painoi t 
days, 
