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of elaborating it completely; or as cannot exist without absorbing 
juices of other vegetables. These are found in all the preceding 
stations. They may be divided into, first, those which grow on the 
surface of others, as the Cuscuta and Misletoe; and, secondly, intes¬ 
tinal parasites, which are developed in the interior of living plants, 
and pierce the epidermis to make their appearance outwardly, such as 
the Uredo and iEcidium. 
16. Epiphytes, or false parasites, which grow upon either dead or 
living vegetables, without deriving any nourishment from them. 
This class, which has often been confounded with the preceding, bus 
two distinctly characterised divisions. The first which approaches 
true parasites, comprehends cryptogamous plants, the germs of which, 
probably carried to their stations by the very act of vegetation, de- 
velope themselves at the period when the plant, or that part where 
they lie, begins to die, then feed upon the substance of the plant du¬ 
ring its mortal throes, and fatten upon it after its decease : such are 
Nemasporas, and many Sphoerias: these are spurious intestinal 
parasites . The second comprehends those vegetables, whether cryp- 
togamio, such as lichens and Musci, or phanerogamous, as Epiden- 
drums, which live upon living plants, without deriving any nutriment 
from them, but absorbing moisture from the surrounding atmosphere; 
these are superficial false parasites : many of them will grow upon 
rocks, dead trees or earth.— Bindley s Introduction to Botany, 
ARTICLE II. 
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On the Size of Flower Pots. —To A. 3 page 42, and Gal- 
lenarus, p. 240. The sizes of Garden pots are as follows:—The 
smallest size are called thimbles, the next size 60s, which are 31- 
inches deep, and 3i wide at the top; 48s are 41 inches deep, and 4i 
wide at top, 32s 5i in. deep, and 5i wide at top; 24s 6£ in. 
deep, and 4i wide at top; 16s 8 in. deep, and 7i wide at 
top; 12s 8i in. deep, and 8i wide at top; 8s 9 in. deep, 
and 9 wide; 6s 10 in. deep, and 10 wide; 4s 11 in. deep, and 
11 wide; 2s 12 in. deep, and 12 wide. It must be remembered, 
that these dimensions vary more or less in the formation of what are 
called flats and uprights, the former are of greater diameter than 
depth, the latter of greater depth than diameter, and these variations 
are considerable at the different potteries, but all are made to contain 
nearly the same portion of soil. 
Brown St. Germain Pear.—T o an 
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