l48 DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM. 



M. Desfontaines, that now borders the parterres 

 of the Luxembourg. In the fine season, beautiful 

 trees from the orangery, such as the grewia, the 

 corymbose cassia, the many flowered staff-tree, 

 celastrus, the justicia ; the African kiggelaria, 

 K, Africana, the carob-tree, ceratonia, and the 

 plane-leaved sterculia, S.platanifolia, are placed 

 in the interval which separates these squares, 

 and at the extremity towards the cabinet, mag- 

 nificent rose bays, double flowering myrtles and 

 palms. 



Between the two squares is a circular basin for 

 the cultivation of aquatic plants, some of which 

 are exotic, as the drooping lizard's tail, saururus 

 cernuus, and the American jussieua, jussieua 

 grandiflora, both of North America. Upon the 

 brink are scatterred pretty species of saxi- 

 frage, and other plants which require constant 

 humidity. 



This basin is in the form of a foot-glass, and has 

 a subterranean passage round it, where crypto- 

 gamous plants which grow in obscurity might 

 be placed to advantage : it produces a continual 

 moisture beneath without suffering the water 

 to escape. 



Opposite io the squares just mentioned, on the 

 right, is a garden with an iron railing, where 

 the plants of the orangery arc exposed in the 



