th Scroph 



finally, in Nicotiana persica, which 



embry 



doubt being a genuine species of Solaneae, the 

 early straight. We therefore are obliged to 



conclude, that a false importance has been g 

 it certainly has to a great many other microscopic characters ; 

 a truth which has not escaped the acuteness of Fries. But 

 to the plaited corolla and symmetrical flowers there are no 

 exceptions that we know of; and these, therefore, we prefer 

 as marks of distinction. 



Solaneae and Scrophularineae are, however, orders so 

 very nearly related in nature, that scarcely any real limits 

 can be expected between them. Where they touch, their 

 similarity must almost amount to identity. Nevertheless, 

 as the orders are no doubt most truly and naturally distinct 



great extent, we could not for the reasons just men 



tioned combine them 



They should rather be considered 



as the connecting groups of two larger masses of plants, of 

 which one has a tendency towards regular flowers and 

 symmetrical stamens, and the other a tendency towards 

 irregular flowers and didynamous stamens. This arrange- 

 ment, which we have carried into 

 Plantarum, may be thus expressed : 



effect in the Ni 



DICARPjE g Petunia. 



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