AXATOJIY OF A LEAF; GREEX AXD DEIED 

 LEAVES. 



I ^■^>^ ^ I AX C IFUL , though expressive, is the ap- 

 pellation of ''Phantom" or ''Spiritual" 

 Flowers ; it was given to the first Amer- 

 ican specimens by those who produced 

 them, and it has since become so general as to be 

 everywhere understood and accepted as their most ap- 

 propriate name. 



Referring to the process by which these flowers are 

 prepared, a Christian friend of the author very beau- 

 tifully used them as emblems of the Resurrection, and 

 as illustrating the ideas, — " Sown a natural body, raised 

 a spiritual body," and, " this corruptible must put on 

 incorruption, and this mortal immortality." 



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