OF THE CEPHALOTUS FOLL1CULAMS. 



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out of the mossy ground by some mouse or large snail, and was 

 to all appearance dead. The roots were all dried up, but I fan- 

 cied there was a little life in the stem ; I brought it into my 

 cottage, and laid it on some damp sphagnum. I then went 

 up into one of the woods, and found a rotten stump of an old 

 tree ; I cut off from it what I thought suited my purpose. There 

 were some chasms in it, and it had living moss growing in it, 

 and some perfectly rotten wood. I next put into one of these 

 holes a little fine and sandy peat, a few knobs of rotten wood, 

 and some very much decayed leaf-mould, and also a little sphag- 

 num. I then planted my poor withered little plant in this 

 mixed holeful of living and decayed matter, and I sunk this 

 old stump in the middle of the bog up to nearly the level of the 

 rim of this hole, where the percolating water gently moved 

 past, and pressed probably in a small degree through the lower 

 fittings of the hole. I afterwards put a small bell-glass over the 

 little plant; but the edge of the hole being rather uneven, the 

 glass was not air-tight. Over this I put a square iron hand-glass : 

 it being in two parts, the air got in a little between the top and 

 bottom ; and in the middle of hot sunny days I have this partly 

 shaded with a piece of old mat. In this situation no mice or 

 snails are likely to be enabled to invade it. 



In about a fortnight after, I was delighted to find my little 

 favourite returning again to the evidence of vitality, and now I 

 never saw it in such a vigorous growing state. At first it threw 

 up healthy plain leaves, and soon after it had eight or ten of 

 them. It has now brought into sight about six or eight of its 

 beautiful pitchers ; some of them are three parts grown, and 

 some are less. It has divided itself into two stems. In summer 

 I generally take off the bell-glass altogether, except when the 

 night air is rather cold ; and in very fine weather I turned the 

 top of the hand-glass, so that through the angles the air had full 

 access to the plant. 



In this bog all last winter were also the following plants : — 



Dionsea muscipula. 

 Sarracenia flava. 



Drummondii. 



adunca. 



Parnassia Caroliniana. 

 palustris. 



Lycopodium circinatum. 



helveticum. 



caudatum. 



ludovicianum. 



denticulatum. 



Selago, &c. 



The following tables will show in what sort of climate this 

 experiment has been tried 



