354 THP 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 19, 1874, 
e tomb. In 1858 some skeletons were 
discovered at A embla ay, Department of the ae some 
of which had a stick lying by aa be of them oe 
coffins i Al s’ Church, 
were found 
aerd i the Society of 
{ntiguaries, d series, vol. i., p. 287.) rep T 
Pilkington, en ne keitai allud 
yi t i 
indicated Aiah A 
out in Ralph p: par veng s case, ge 2 made a DURARE -h tó 
Compostella,” 
In the fourth century a on Olive- 
erals 
grave to pluck 
them, saying, ‘They shall flourish out of the 
city like grass upon the earth ;” this was done 
as an emblem that the body, Mooh dead, 
should spring up again like the grass. B. M. 
New Garden Plants. 
DENDROBIUM ARACHNITES, 7, sf.* 
Since the Time when Sir W. Hooker described his 
ue Dendrobium am! 
unique inense, no such remarkable 
and extraordi Den ae has been disco- 
vered. Imagin thr es high, with 
shining intern a little thicker at their upper en 
and then add a flower with linear sepals and petals, 
ly inches lo en dried, and a long pan- 
durate pi Aim a wid towards its obtuse ti All th 
organs a) n dried, whitish-yellow, with a 
deep lilas ‘blotch ‘ry the base of the lip. I ‘Rave only 
ieve a single plant 
of it it has been found in Burmah by Mr. _ Box 
he dried it! 
ne feels that the Beria plants incline 
ible not to 
stems may not become longer. "i. GR cho. fr 
pet ie LEUZEANA, Presl, Tent. Pterid, 183; 
£ 
. 50. POLYPODIUM LEUZEANUM, 
Gaudichaud, Frey. Voy. 371, 6. ss 
LEUZEANUM, Kunze, Bot. Zeit, xiv. 474. E- 
PHRODIUM LEUZEANUM, Hooker, Sp. Fil. iv. rf 
„This very handsome See nt Fern was exhi- 
ebruary 
Aspidium Leuzeanum of Kun de, and We 
Pleocnemia Leuzeana of Presl, including rider the 
latter name several Ferns from different is tgp 
Sei wat Presl separates, but . whi che 
y. ic pa ri synonymous 
geographical varieties of the genic plant of Gaudi. 
chaud, collected in the Mol Mr. Bull’s plant 
uccas. 
$$ agrees more closely with the 
ohir Bat the di Simoes beimein the 
l considered of specific value 
They ya 
it -like trunks, in some cases, acc 
to Presl, reaching 20 feet in height, with bipinnato- 
* Eudendrobium (?) pseudobulbo 
brevi gracili demum nitido, 
juxta fi 
apices articulorum paulo incrassato ; 
tepalisque linearibus use 
antror: 
angustato obtuse ; 
in basi ; -columna minuta tridentata ; sion parvo obt 
pinnatifid or tripinnate wpd the lower pinnæ o 
which are bipartit ds are from 4 feet to 
6 feet long, ae yA l > sen hes are deltoid in 
outline, spre arched o perta deflexed 
manner, ‘ist havi the inn rege n below the 
bs ae edge of the rachis, s so that oh Sand surface of 
fronds acquire a ridge-and-furrow panees 
CnaT our artist has not omitted to to note in the annexed 
woodcut are from = to 
18 inches long, ath m N pre segments Shag, 
anple all recurved tooth in the sinus. The 
ideii. tee va sen 
found in the Eastern Arc bivelegd | in o India and China, 
and in the Samoan and Feejee Islands. It is an 
ornam Fern of athens elegant character 
Ze M. 
n PLANTS. 
Dr. HooxeEr’s address the artment of 
Zoology and Botany of t “British ssociation at 
Belfast is by far th faa and clearest statement of 
position of the believers i ivorous pla I 
et with t only merits respectful con- 
sideration on account of the position and abilities of 
he author, the evident sincerity of his search 
after the trut ost, in n fairness, requires 
at any one w inks he can throw light on the 
subject should contribute his views and observations 
in reply. It is with this feeling that I shall note th 
ult of one or two t 
last six weeks to 
Pinguicula had carnivorous properties or not. It 
may be remembered that at the last 5 meting of the 
i Ro ultural 
Scientific Coane of the 
Society ( hich occasion 
been made b) 
pon the Pinguicula, Kuca led him s. 
t, like A it, too, was rnivorou 
plant, deei from the it Tveita which it 
ptured on its lik.“ I have ying in the 
Ochil Hills in Kinross-shire, where Thad an ririk 
ry 
< the plant tider both Endt in 
was that, whether it 
which I convinced mys gi 
S$ ca rane ra or no icula was rightly 
regarded Dy r. Darwin as coming under the Bhar e 
catego ionæa and Dro Tt 1 was a fly- 
ry a 
catcher ae a fly- yee refi gr AE it was a on, 
digester is a different thing—but neither on = point, 
any more than on the other, can it be separated from 
them. i eae t do 
so likewise. does not, neither ill the 
other. A comparison of the points on which the car. 
e |I oe a differ: : 
Lg say how my obseva ao, or do not, rm a 
or warrant the pocapan of Mr. Hvala ze Hooker, 
and ar E c 
enabl ontrast 
them easily, for he puts the salient DER a favour of 
carnivorous feeding v early. 
In Dionza the s ee consist—1, of a certain 
amount of irritability by which insects are captured ; 
2, of ele ages city display ring con 
sie wa ring muscular action in cram a r Or 
the ermida of an acid secretion by the cap- 
tured i re dissolved ; and 4, of the: dighstiog of 
the =h sir she assimilation of their substance by 
p 
Now, first, as to the irritability, de a bound to 
confess that my experiments have qualified 
T Mr. - Darwin ı and others have found that after 
a Sy surface of the leaf of Pinguicula vulgaris, the 
margins of the leaf slowly and gradually curl as it so 
pietei at the oa bf Pe tous hours the insect is co 
etely covered by it. ould not get my Pin icul 
to do this. ` In fact my A wholly sare i 
s any one ctr the leaves aiden with their 
in all aaeain 
according one to three 
and 
bólts the curving o 
have any 
n eggs eh soon ies all been es membranous 
ways p 
y removed rain 0 . 
-| Hooker says—‘‘ To Ellis belongs the credit of- 
divining of the capture of insects by the 
bret, rer on ye- ys principle that a Ea 
ae sed i modern hospitals, 
conceive of a “plant and yet not 
irritable ; as, for prong the Pinguicula, ice I 
ma e 
— wrong in “regarding as not carnivorous, or the 
ha anit: 
reverse. two phases are not necessarily nor 
mutually interd ent. or connection with their 
irritability, however, Si additional eyond 
its mere existence has been pte from some pheno- 
mena which have b i nection 
ith i At the meeting of the British Associa- 
ion at Bradford in 1873 Dr. ander- 
n 
as those which oc co 
cle and in the functional excitation o 
nerve has never yet been rey eg by vegetable 
physiologis By a most remarkable series of experi- 
ments (which will be published subsequently), made 
with the aid of Sir Wm. Tho ’s galvanomet 
Dr. on Sanderson has shown that these currents 
would appear that either 
e say his add 
subject has acquired a new erest 
arches Mr. Darwin into the phenomena 
. which accompany the placing albuminous substan 
n the lea Dro nd Pinguicula, and which, 
in the opinion o ent physiologist, prove, 
e casé of u that this plant digests exactly 
the same substan ctly the e way a 
riments not yet published, of course those of us whp 
do not otherwise accept Mr. Darwin’s and Dr. 
H 
n Sanderson’s a ae 
t the Dionæa 
the d 
g from 
not be eas rto | be arate 
action, y k one 
ve g that nek 
enoma: gin in active Ee o operal 
the proc ion i 
I thetelote admit the occurrence a irritability and T 
peratio I g 
Dionzea, but. Curtis made out the details of hee 
act as a solvent, the insects being more or less € 
