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f l orn the place where it originally 

 stood.* 



The familiar names given to 

 orchids express certain peculi- 

 arities of appearance — such as 

 the " frog orchis,' ' the " bee 

 orchis," the " saw-fly," the 

 " spider," the " lizard," the 

 " green man," the " tongue 

 lipped," the " heart lipped," 

 the " bird's nest," the " ladies' 

 traces," the " adder's tongue," 

 &c, &c. The flowers are fre- 

 quently curiously spotted or 

 striped. The pale Cattleya, 6, 

 bears a magnificent flower, and 

 was named by Linneaus after his 

 early friend, William Cattley, 

 a great promoter of botany. 



The arum, or cuckoo pint, is 

 one of a very curious group of 

 plants. Their flowers, 8, 9, 10, 

 are enclosed within a spathe, 7, 

 which is a highly 

 developed bract; and 

 are embedded upon a 

 fleshy spadix, 1 1 ; the 

 j\ stamens, 9, are here 

 ' placed above the pis- 

 tils, 10. The leaves 

 of most of the species 

 are poisonous. Some 

 of the cultivated ones 

 attain a large size, the 

 spadix, 11, displaying 

 a richly coloured vel- 

 vety lobe in the midst of a pure 

 white and waxen spathe, 7. 



Bell-flowers, 12, constitute an 

 interesting group of the natural 

 order campanulacea?, from cam- 

 pana, a bell, on account of the 

 form of the corolla. One of the 

 species, campana speculum, or 

 Venus's looking-glass, is so called 



* Loudon a Encyclopaedia of Plants. 



867. 



because the corolla resembles 

 a little mirror — speculum. The 

 flowers are of various colours^ 

 most of them showy, and many 



of them beautiful. Several of 

 the varieties are derived from 

 the East and West Indies, Ame- 

 rica, Australia, and various parts 

 of Europe. 



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To the same order belong the 

 lobelias, 13, so named in memory 

 of M. Lobel, author of various 

 works upon botany. He was 

 physician and botanist to James L, 



