. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. 482 HISTORY OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. found filled with fluid secreted from the juices of the plant. What is remarkable, this fluid,. Pitcher Plant. is a pure and wholesome water, while the water of the soil in which the plant grows, is stagnant and unwholesome. From forty to fifty of these cups grow on a plant, each holding about an ounce
. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. 482 HISTORY OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. found filled with fluid secreted from the juices of the plant. What is remarkable, this fluid,. Pitcher Plant. is a pure and wholesome water, while the water of the soil in which the plant grows, is stagnant and unwholesome. From forty to fifty of these cups grow on a plant, each holding about an ounce or two of water. This plant thrives, with care and attention, in hot-houses in this country, where the pitchers are fully developed. It requires a very damp atmosphere, and much heat. CHAP. XLVI. THE SPICE TREES AND PLANTS CINNAMON, CAMPHOn, CLOVE, PEPPEB, OINOER, &C. The plants to be treated of in this chapter are distinguished by their aromatic qualities, depending on the existence of an essential oil, either diffused throughout the whole plant, or existing in the bark, fniit, or roots. These aromatic species have been used as lux- uries, and perhaps formed the first articles of commerce among the earliest races of mankind. In eastern countries, from the earliest times, they were employed as perfumes, and entered into the composition of most of their culinary dishes. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans used them in profusion both as articles of luxury, and at their religious ceremonies and funeral obsequies. Nor are they less esteemed by the modems, or the inhabitants of the more tem- perate and colder regions of the globe. Into every country almost, are these fragrant and stimulating substances difiiised by the universal agency of commerce. The Cinnamon tree (laurus cinnamomum). Natural favaily laurinecej enneandria, mmiogynia, of Linnaeus. Tliis valuable and beautiful species of the laurel family, grows to the height of twenty to thirty feet. The trunk is short, erect. wi
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