than 



H 



extremely rare ; but as it seeds tolerably freely 

 be more abundant. 



To Botanists this is more 

 turists. It belongs to a smal 

 species are generally of rare 

 several interesting peculiarities in their structure. Not the 

 least of these is the singular manner in which the seeds are 

 fixed to the pericarpium. In the beginning the ovarium 

 has but one cell, from the bottom of the cavity of which, 



natural order, in which 

 occurrence, and which h 



and from opposite sid 



there 



pring two little plates 



attached by a small stalk, and bearing two conical, rather 

 distended, obtuse bodies upon their inner face 



formed of very 



and laxly cohenn 



By degrees these plates enlarge 



the plates 



vesicles of _ d _ r 



and become succulent and form two fungous placentae 

 filling up the whole cavity of the ovarium, while the bodies 

 that they bear, changing to ovula, are jammed in between 

 the two opposing faces of the placentae. At a later period, 

 when the flower has withered, the placentae so completely 

 fill the cavity and conceal the ovula, that they may easily 

 be mistaken for half-grown seeds. After this time they 

 generally diminish, till they become, when the seeds are 

 ripe, a mere membrane, which lines the cavity of the 

 capsule. 



The ovula themselves, if squeezed in water, emit a 

 cloudy matter, which, when examined microscopically, is 

 found to consist of minute moving particles, mixed with 



drops of an oily fluid. 



J. L. 



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