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seeded it, and have raised seedlings from it, and yet I am constantly 

 without it. It is a bog plant, and difficult to grow. It is imported 

 in quantities from abroad, and when the next large importation takes 

 place I shall try several out of doors in an artificial bog, beside the 

 Drosera rotundifolia. When recently on a visit to the Botanical Gardens 

 at Edinburgh, I was delighted with the success which there attended 

 the cultivation of this curious plant. The plants were grown in pots, 

 immediately under the glass, so as to have full exposure to light : in 

 fact, they were suspended from the roof The pots were placed in a 

 miniature bog : a plan which commends itself to our minds as approach- 

 ing very nearly the conditions of their growth in their owji country. 

 As I have already said, it is one of the most curious plants in the 



world, and should be grown 

 whenever it can be procured. 

 The Drosera dichotoma is an- 

 other interesting plant which I 

 have grown. 



Fig. 529.— Dionaea 

 muscipula. 



Fig. 530. — Darlingtonia 

 califoruica. 



Fig. 531. — Cephalotus folllcularis. 



There is a shrubby fly-catching plant from Portugal grown at Kew 

 which I do not yet possess; and a still more marvellous fly-catching 

 plant, Darlingtonia califoruica (fig. 530), which has hairs in the inside 

 of a tube so arranged, that when the flies get in they cannot escape 

 What the precise use of these fly-catching contrivances are, it is difficult 

 to imagine, unless they nourish the plant ; certainly they are amongst 

 the wonders of the vegetable kingdom. 



There is another very interesting greenhouse plant from '^^^ 

 Holland, the Cephalotus follicularis {fig. SSO- It is a bog plant, like 

 Venus's Fly-trap, and it has grown well with me out of doors in 



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