Mr. B/UiKiut's plant produceci tlowers in the autumn of lS3f);* aud from tliese, assisted by native
specimens more recently discovered by Mr . SKINKEU in Guatemala, Miss DR.MCP. prepared the exquisite
d r a m n g from whence the accompiinying plate is taken. In cultivation, the species docs not appear to
require any particular care, but we fear that it is likely to continue a scarce plant for many years to come;
—¡1 circumstance the more to be regretted, as tlie singu3arit>^ of its structure-its lovely flowers-and
graceful iiabit, c;innot fail to render il an object of desire, both to the boUinist aud the amateur.
Mr. BAOEH, after whom the species is ntmied, is well kno^^-n to die botanical world as tlie facile
princeps of microscopical draughtsmen. jVlthough now between eight}- and ninety years of age, ho rctiiins
all his early fondness for his favourite science, and not imfrcquent l y plies his pencil wt l i uo unsteady hand.f
The Vignette is borrowed from a curious lab/caii in the " llerbarium," or, to speak more correctly,
the Museum siccum" of Lady Grej- of Groby, which is ricii in quaint devices of the same kind. The
scene is evidently laid on the shores of some Indian stream, whither part of the numerous progeny of
Cycnoches (a genus exclusively American) are supposed-by poetic licence-to have migrated; attracted,
perhaps, by the well-known dainties + wliich are so plentifully prorided in the pitchers of Nejienthen
(lis I'lllato7-ia.
DCOWTU hi» «ouJ'»JEW«l, ia the cup of riel."
• Mr. Barker'» plant, happening to he in no«-cr sL the titn« of tJicir viiit, waj. cjthibilfti to the member» of the " üriti.h Aí»ocialioti for iJic
Advancement of Science," who hononred Binningham with Ü)cir company in tlie «muran of 1838; and a moM atlractive object it proved.
+ Scarce a botanical nork of any prclcnsion Iiu» been published during die last nfty year«, hui is deeply indebted to Mr. Uaucr". asiiduicy and
«kiU. His published drawings, however, bear but a ponr proparuan to those which are irill retained in his own porliolio, or preserved in the Briu.h
Among tlic latter, hi» illustrations of •• Wheat," in every stage of germination, stand riuite imrivalled,—tJieir puhlic.ition would be a national
—bul the great expense and comparatively alight encouragcmcflt likely to attend it. would deter a private individual from making the attempt, il
to be tlie duty, as it surely it tJie policy, of a paternal Government to undertake it.
Ints, niti, wimdlice, spiders, Src. perijh by diousands in the vegetable cyalhi of the " I'itilier-plant;"—some ».ly it get» its nourishment in
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