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ly, turned by the twisting of the filament, so that the cells are anterior and 

 posterior, the smaller cell lying against the ovary. Pollen simple and spheri- 

 cal. The ovary is turbinate, five-celled and somewhat five-lobed, concave 

 and dilated at the summit, so as to exhibit a sort of margin which projects 

 over the stamens; the columnar style is short, and five-cleft at the summit; 

 the narrow segments diverging and stigmatose at the extremity on the inside. 

 Ovules very numerous, anatropous, covering the large placenta, which pro- 

 jects into the cells of the ovary." 



Dr. Torrey is not quite convinced that the hairs in the pitcher, nor those 

 of the lamina, are of a secreting character ; yet I am satisfied that the pitch- 

 er, when collected by me, contained water ; but as rain water, or even dew, 

 cannot enter the orifice of the pitcher, ow T ing to its vaulted summit, it neces- 

 sarily follows then, that the water found by me in the pitchers must have 

 been secreted by some internal organ. I have not had the satisfaction of 

 seeing the flower in a recent or dry state, but Dr. G. W. Hulse, of New Or- 

 leans, in May, 1851, detected the plant in bloom in the same region, and* 

 as Dr. Torrey says, " perhaps in the same spot where it was discovered " by 

 me nearly ten } T ears before ; and there is no farther evidence that I am aware 

 of, that it has been found there or elsewhere by any other collector ; so that 

 the plant appears to be very rare — and so far, it is the only representative 

 of the order west of the Rocky Mountains. In your November number for 

 1853, in a short notice of Barlingtonia, the difference between it undSarra- 

 cenia, as quoted from Dr. Torrey, is there stated ; and the Doctor concludes 

 his remarks on his new genus by offering some considerations in regard to 

 the opinion of M. Planchon, respecting the close affinity of Sarraceniacese 

 and Pyrolacese ; and although such an affinity may at first view appear re- 

 mote, yet any one who will take the trouble to examine the nature of the 

 floral envelopes, the tendency of the stamens to be definite, together with the 

 structure of the ovary and radiating stigmas, must discover a striking rela- 

 tionship exists between the two. 



In individuals composing the order of Conifer m, Oregon and California are 

 rich in examples — some of them of great beauty, and many of gigantic di- 

 mensions. In the Smithsonian contributions to knowledge, for April, 1853, 

 we find a figure and description of Lihocedrus decurrens, Torrey. This tree 

 was first detected by the botanists of the United States' Exploring Expedi- 

 tion in 1841, between 40 and 42° N. lat., growing in solitary specimens on 

 the tops of the Shaste mountains ; and found also, but we believe a little far- 

 ther south, by Dr. G. W< Hulse. It is really a noble evergreen tree, with 

 a trunk often six feet in diameter, and attains a height of one hundred and 

 twenty feet and upwards ; its branches are numerous, assurgent and twiggy, 

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