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*] others will ere long be added. There are several forms of plants po- 

 sessing arrangements for the collection of water by certain append- 

 ages. We can enumerate the indigenous sarracenias of N. America 

 of which there are several ; the Cephalotvs follicular is of N. Holland, 

 one species only being known of the genus, and the species of Nepen- 

 thes, distillatoria, Hookerii, lsevis, sanguinea and Rafflesiana. Of these, 

 distillatoria has been for a number of years in cultivation, and by care 

 and attention in fertilisation, hundreds of plants have been produced 

 from seed here and in Europe. The numerous visitors who frequent 

 the extensive conservatories of James Dundas, Esq., Philadelphia, have 

 no doubt observed them in great luxuriance, under the care of the 

 persevering gardener, Mr. Bisset, who can now exhibit healthy and 

 flourishing specimens of N. Rafflesiana and distillatoria. The wood 

 cut given below was prepared from a drawing taken here by Miss Mor- 

 ris, and represents accurately the habit of Rafflesiana, of which we 

 furnished a colored plate in a preceding number. 



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The peculiar process known as the pitcher is a dilatation of the pe- 

 tiole or leaf stalk, which by the approximation of its edges forms a 

 follicular vessel, and is surmounted by an operculum or lid, recognised 

 /2 according to the rules of structural botany as the true leaf. The genus 



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