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slowly vly and gradually on the stage, attain their *culmi- | never under the guise of a lower order. ‚Аһ, too, that | member, and deals the most destructive blows with 
сюр ng Doint, or period of greatest variety, size, and | we know of vcf em шө is f| wonderful rapidity. Still, the creature would rather 
mbers, and then gradually or quickly decline, | transmu tation—species and genera. remaining (under | avoid than seek а — and does not act in this 
4; ity diti hicl until driven to uy Pac In some parts -of 
they sas re surrounded J» the vegetable world we have to tl it d Egypt | aevum they catch the Alligator in „а very ingenious 
ora—so exuberant that it is 4000 yen | m: anner. An ordinary 
but faintly уат ^ the rankest wth of = “ +. їз gin = doubt, that the ional | ag uch a quarry, and the natives employ a kind 
tropical jungle. To account for this extraordinary de- | adva RRI species to species take bur а slow ael of mixture beef en a hook end grapnel which very 
velopment of pla ant „life over such wide and diverely disant есе which cumulatively become | effectually answers their purpose. 'This so-called hook 
si g globe, various hypothe es have apparent oniy after the lapse of ages. Admitting, is made of four sticks of hard tough wood barbed at 
been offered, s rate of progress, there » ought still to Ps end, ^ lightly curving and bound — at M 
fect of th be зл нит маң ms in various stages of progressi at|end so as use all the upper barbs to radiate from. 
emt ei one in the МЫН axis of Me, о so|every epoch—form which we fail pere h other. This apparatüs is baited with "the flesh of 
within the tropics— s enr just as бтн y has failed to detect them | some animal, - suspended just abou ut a foot from the 
д greate ter eccentricity of. the e earths e so as to that which has become р-а Again, the modifica: | water, the other end of the rope being made fast to a 
bare D — the glo! be peri the sun's|tions for which the developist contends are those of a | tree or strong stake. As soon as the Alligator takes 
had beneficial kind; so that, in the grea struggle for | this bait and begins to pull at the cord, the barbs begin 
of не. бог such ir canses, and much evidence | existence, and dae the influence of altered Dm mme |to make their way into its throat, and it is evident 
to the pem we are bound. = induction to|every crenture, ii eously modified, will ha ve from the construction of the hook that the more the 
seek for the tion in surviv wijst those i lls, the firmer are th 
un: о 
tion of sea in the altitude of its shores, in | the wall. Не ever, К show how the opera- throat. When thus — its struggles are terrific, 
the arrangement of emer — and oceanic currents, ! tion of a purely vm law should mot affect alike | and Mr. Waterton, who's in capturing a fine 
and generally za Ре сопсе ion of — —' — member of a —À -— to — that his] ву 0 fect | in length, had the greatest 
m t ialistic | d in securing 16 without damaging its 
clim 
after all—as in the case of the great меу elephants variar e gy for an undefined law of pr ogress, which p seein P- 
and rhinoceroses of Nort m Europe, whose repre- | forms part of а a predest stined plan, i, must clearly obey 
sentatives are now found only in the LNO know | an intelligent behest.” ip of the ith the 
f the plants to say under what | We shall soon man Mr. Darwin’s own repl to this ; 
conditions of climate they would at Pom greatest | and all similar criticisms; for we have T do re present ntis ee. "Tue principal тые ы 
ехи xuberance, ста Вн ‘cleanly алені from their | that his new volume is about to go to press Tulip judging ; an account of New Roses; the conclu- 
d : , M 1 Hist on of a series of fupe on Wall Fruit Trees; a re- 
and continuous. Generally speaking, we find them | оні мис УЕ очун Жаштай History. DAMES commendation of Fancy or Belgian Pansies; and 
"|a critique on the Verbenas of 1861; with various 
| notices of meetings, exhibitions, &c. 
t 
nw mperat sub-tropical rather má їп | engravings dnd bett r than ever, and. the сма 
equatorial г жеттг A "The Wellingtonias« of Californ and | very interesti on of what is arden Mem randa. 
the Pines of : —— е аге е т than i» "A Crocodiles аш. Alliga «d 
t Coni yet disco the dl: Aof Овооовбалв i is KAN rather elongated, | Ботлі BoTANIO GARDENS, Kev. —At this dull sea- 
measares; the. Tree. "Fern of New Ted diu ria Sdn species is lengthened into a narrow and | son of the year, when plants in very 
bamid and shady spots; the Tussack of d lone e tios Each jaw is furnished with a ro ow of | scarce, the following memoranda concerning some 
Island and the Phormium of New Zealand show leaves | sharply pointed and rather conical teeth. These teeth | which we saw in flower the other'da 
2s broad and long as the poacites of the Са rboniferous|are hollow, mostly grooved on the surface, and are | not be without interest. Foremost among these was 
acc ich, 
о а 
ations—the oolite, the Wealden, andtertiory; and | extremity of the skull and upon a slightly raise 
EU are to go in search of abnormal conditions for | prominence, 80 that үн aene is able to breathe b 
he production of the one, we must admit the existence merely exposing an r so above the water, and | in 
f si milar causes for the production of the other— | thus can conceal itself оа фе апу foe, or make an b 
n admission, as we shall afterwards see, that would unsuspected approach upon its prey. There is yet | climb! 
ead to irreconcilable absurdities. The fact is, coal is another more important use for the positiog of the plant eine 
S pocessary po oduct of every period, and is merely the ги һе — feed on fis - ana. various | looked ; for, 
Y ж of vegetable айра, ulat: it llow-ti 
of that accumulation. 16 isto time, there- any uni nate animal that may come to d how 
: йү = for ex Шаб гога | thus|as does = 
excessive tempera ex- IPIS D s etna 
planation of the vegetable masses of the coal period; d sinks below the surface so as to keep the|climbers. A plant of 
he who would cut short the difficulty by appeals to Er of the victim be up Ад rede теме on the roof of the great Palm 
abnormal "n ions, instead of exhausting ће possibili- еш eans of the eleva д during this| ОЕ other kinds of plants, Жаы iflora 
ties within. scope of na tural з; at once псе does | the mouth is Ped а wida Md 606 it m might t belin blossom on a shelf in the small Victoria house, 
y presu med that. considerable inconvenience where its large snow-white flowers сай ample T 
induc 1 green leaves had a fine effect. This is a plant whi 
' Ме. [^ method of meeting Darwinian facts and Such i о indeed be the case, were › not t this difficult y fail to flower, owing probably to not sufficiently 
inferences is to the following effect :— t encouraging its growth during the summer months. 
“No o do ubt plants and animals are endowed with a | At the back ш € throat, а of thin ма us| When it has done flowering, it should be allowed а 
t , that w ai the АБИБА opens its рү of rest; then let it be repotted in good rich soil ; 
minor changes E external conditions; and acting upon | mouth t of t ер? water rusbing into the n fairly grow it freely, and no fears need. 
this elasticity, man has been enabled to produce ? all the | mouth immediately closes one upon the other, and - ва tertained that it iem == blossom satisfactorily. 
prevents the ed of a single drop, the | This is the kind of treatm which at Kew has been. 
animals, This limt of variation, is soon closure being in exact proportion to the volume of | found to answer perfectly; р з spike producing from 
—-— the M nee is never = АРн hie vari ieties | water. The structure indeed is very cw that of the | four to six blooms, every one of which is as large ай 
сап only be maintained bya continvation - "the artifi- | valves of the heart, The channels which 1 ead from - a five shilling piece. Among Gesneras, none is supe- 
cial sti iulii c E^ this case man presents himself as a nostrils run very far bac through the skull, and о rior, either for effect or usefulness, to . cinnabarina, 
-creative centre, deputed with s power of prescient | behind the throat valves, so that respiration is in whose lateral shoots keep up a succession n of gaiety even 
design otherwise unknown in creation; and to argue| way impeded. ey cannot, however, swallow their | long after the main flower stems have faded. Тһе rich 
from his operatio as Mr. rash has done, to those | prey while under water, but od me ers de ring it on | crimson down with which the foliage is clothed, also 
occurring in mere physical nature, is altogether to mis-|shore for that purpose. mall, and n considerably to the ornamental appearance of this 
interpret the functions mé € and reason were | fastened down to the lower dew калебе} 'its length от. Am onias, а n of Kunt 
destined to rr ve "ine € power іп | во that it was formerly tho ught that the Crocodiles lately figured in the * Botanical Magazine,' dese 
nature akin to the human n intellec t, are not | were verde ot that organ." mention. То а good habit d prettily divided leaves 
prit of induction, to poma from the “Thor tim mid, ч же most reptiles as long : as their | it adds large blossoms of snowy whiteness, interest- 
i пе: | ingly tre by a tuft of ро - yellow 
when aroused, knows | stamens, the two colours produci ng а charming con- 
tH 
à 
lants, and only ceases its | in pots, 
. No easy mat 
у the breath - не igator, for its life s directed tion occasion 
3 bre in the ereature's | bo ‚ 'опсе está m re itself, 
iir er through with em in flower now, its tiny stems and ttle 
[Аар its converted | blue starry the s 
ver X ing the lac of of the ! face of the soil in which the plants are -Ріссев: 
and “finit y. Вевій Бой itwth 1 Лев with wondrous | lifted and blossom freely for along and 
Ways. If an «а a under favourably conditions, can aos sappii шу v ph its huge jaws, and | that with scarcely any trouble or attention. Of more 
it may al ashing ar tail side to- side with such | importance in а decorative point of view 
— favourable conditions, be retarded: and t hrown |v vigour e that it "uke a "dd man to venture within | lias - Bouvardias. Of the former viscosa full 
that terrible weapon. Tt is fortunate for the | flower, and among the latter Oriana—the one deep 
conditions varied during the geological epochs—now je ds that its hesa is not gifted with mobility equal | blue, tis other pink ; nor can Pentas carnea or Centra- 
genial and n presi ious —we Td à have degrada-|to that of the tail. The Alligator can only turn its | denia floribunda be dispensed with ; both are а-ар. 
tion as well as elopment. The great gradational|head very slig ty indeed, on account of two bony |u Ы winter plants, as is also Plumbag 
hear taught by "geology being always steadily from | projections, one on eac side of the head, which are | whi ich we n notie ced а сой example well Sun s with 
ighe to wg he er, is, h however, against thi is; and when a | efficient MS to any but the smallest lateral motion. oma rocentrum mexicanum, a 
species or family is t it e antagonist may therefore easily pens A оп land, е, mcn Melastomad, is likewise a good 
invariably dwarfs an nd dies ont in its own proper by spi етар eos before the reptile He er plant, аз are also Didymocarpus primuloides, a 
charaeter—a trilobite as a M an ammonite as an | must, — beware of its tail, for rds "Alligator view woolly-leaved plant, the blossoms of which are 
ammonite, an ichthyosaur ichthyosaurus—and | when angry, sweeps right and left "with that powerful | blush white; the scarlet Scutellaria Ventenati, the rosy 
hich, 
ed — iUnd instinct that sees no obsta cles | trast. This is а kind which no collection) however 
intell 1 be wi eet appli, : 
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