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Show SOilE PECULIAR FLAMS. ONE AITIJED TO A. AOCTH'8 FACE i iur was the CBownr OF BEARD. A very funny plant In the govern, ment botanical garden, tays a Washington Wash-ington letter to the lioston Trail-tcrtpi, Trail-tcrtpi, is the to-called bather plant, the leaves of which are used in some parts of the east by rubbing on the face to keep the beard from growing. It is not supposed to have auy effect on a beard that is already rooted, but merely to act as a preventive, pre-ventive, boys employing It to keep the hair from getting a start on their face. It Is also employed by some Oriental people who desire to keep parts of Uieir heads free from hair, ua a matter ot fashion. Also found in the botanical garden gar-den Is the "cruel plant," which la to designated because it catches butterflies and kills them for sheer sport. Its flowers attract the poor little flutterer by the honey it oners, and hen tlio victim alights upon it it grabs the butterfly by the head and holds it fast until the captive dies. Then the flower drops it on the ground and lies in wait for a fresh unfortunate A curious-looking tree from the bthmus of Panama bears a round, red fruit as big as an apple, which has tills remarkable faculty, that Its Juice, rubbed on tougb beef or chicken, makes the meat teuderby the chemical txmer It lo&wsses to eeparatu thu-Uoh fiber. One is interested in-terested to observo In the botanical green-bou'e three kinds ofpUnta inathaereal consumption of the lungs the leaves, of course, being the lungs of a plant. The disease U manifested by the turning of the leaes froM I'reen to white, the affection af-fection gradually spreading from one spot until rflieu a leaf la all white, It is Jii't about- to die. Cruelly Cru-elly enou;h &?H would seem, the .gardcnetfuuly try to icrpetuale the disease for the sake of lieauty and curiosity, all plants of those varieties varie-ties that are too healthy being thrown away. |
