Imperishable Flowers.
There were reoently exhibited, by Sir Joseph Hooker, at a meeting of the Eoyal Sooiety, some leaves and petals of flowera and some twigs and mosses which were removed from the tomb of the founder of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, who died 3,500 years ago. The vegetable remains were treated in warm water until they sufficiently expanded to allow a determination of their speoies, and in most instances an indentific#tion sufficiently close to allow them to be classified. And, as aD evidence of the stability of vegetable types, the mummy flowers plants were the same as those now existing. The blue water lily, Nympha cerulca, the white water lily, Nympha lotus, the willow, Salix safsaf, seeds of the Jinnperas plianicca, and several grasses, together with a lichen indigenous to Greece, were found and indentified.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1797, 12 January 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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