168 HOT-HOUSE — OF REPOTTING, ETC. [May. 
pendages that are generally half full of water, which appears 
to be confined within them by a lid with which the ap- 
pendages are surmounted ; hence the name of pitcher-plant. 
AVe have never observed the lids close again when once 
open. Writers have called it an herbaceous plant, but it 
is properly a climbing shrub. The pot in which it grows 
should be covered with moss, and the roots liberally sup- 
plied with water every day. It delights to be in a moist 
state. The flowers are small, and in long spikes. The 
plant is of easy culture, and even rapid in growth : a plant 
with us only nineteen months old is now five feet high. 
(Soil No.«5.) 
Pancratium is a genus of hot-house bulbs, and now only 
contains five species. They are all free-flowering. Several 
of them are handsome and fragrant. P. maritimum and 
P. vereciindum are the finest; the flowers are white, in 
large umbels ; petals long, recurved, and undulate. P. lit- 
tordlis, P. specidmm, and P. caribseum, are now given to the 
genus HymcnocdlUt, and are fine flowering species. Care 
must be taken not to give them water while dormant. The 
soil ought at that time to be in a half dry state. They are 
in flower from May to August. (Soil No. 12.) 
Panddntis, Screw Pine. There are about twenty species 
in this genus, several of them very interesting, but none so 
greatly admired as P. odoratissimus. The leaves in estab- 
lished plants are from four to six feet long, on the back 
and edges spiny; are spreading, imbricated, and embracing 
the stem, and placed in three spiral rows upon it. The 
top soon becomes heavy, when the plant throws out prongs 
one, two, or three feet up the stem in an oblique descending 
direction, which take root in the ground, and thus become 
perfectly supported. It is cultivated in Japan for its de- 
lightful fragrance, and it is said, " of all the perfumes, it is 
by far the richest and most powerful." P. litilis, red- 
spined. We question this species, and are inclined to 
believe that it is the former, only when the plants are newly 
raised from seed the spines and leaves are red, changing 
to green as they become advanced in age. The plants are 
easy of culture, and will grow almost in any soil. (Soil 
No. 12.) 
Pass/flora, "Passion-flower, so named on account of its 
