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the cellular nature of that part, and to explain upon what 
plan it is formed in other cases. 
QurkrTTiA ($ Vandem). Perianthium cylindraceum, sepalis linearibus «quali- 
bus basi gibbosis lateralibus connatis, petalis linearibus xquilongis. Label- 
lum oblongum, integrum, muticum, cum labello parallelum, basi excavatum 
bicallosum. Columna semiteres, erecta, apice utrinque auriculata. Anthera 
unilocularis. ^ Pollinia 2, posticé excavata; caudiculà lineari, glandulá 
minutá. Folia teretia maculosa. Panicula capillaris, 3-pollicaris. Flores 
parvi, flavi. Sepala linearia obtusa et labellum oblongum acutum cellula- 
rum majorum lutearum in medio raphidophorarum copiá repleta. Columna 
linearis, petalorum feré longitudine, auriculis acutis inflexis. 
It gives me great pleasure to name this curious plant 
after Edwin J. Quekett, Esq. F.L.S. an excellent Botanical 
Observer, and one of our most skilful vegetable anatomists. 
I am already indebted to that gentleman for some valuable 
facts concerning raphides; a plant, therefore, in which these 
crystals form a conspicuous part of the structure, may not be 
inappropriately selected to bear his name. 
7. CYCLOSÍA maculata, (Klotzsch in Allgem. Gartenzeitung, no. 39. 1838.) 
a supposed new Mexican Orchidaceous plant, appears to be Mormodes 
pardina. Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. no. 176. 
GRUNDZÜGE, &c.—4 new theory of Vegetable Fertilization, by Stephen 
Endlicher. A pamphlet, Vienna, 1838. 
In consequence of the great resemblance between the 
pollen of perfect plants, and the spores (or seeds) of crypto- 
gamic plants, an opinion has arisen in Germany that the 
pollen does not possess any specific fertilizing influence, as 
has hitherto been believed, but that it is the seed of a 
plant in its youngest condition, and that it strikes into the 
stigma its roots, the tips of which eventually reach the ovule, 
and there complete their evolution. Schleiden and Wydler 
have already published their ideas upon this subject, and 
Mr. Endlicher declares himself an advocate of the same 
views. In the papers of the former physiologists, the 
supposed fertilizing influence of the pollen was disposed of ; 
but no attempt was made to shew in what the said influence 
resides, if not in the pollen. Mr. Endlicher supplies this 
omission by assigning that function to the papille of the 
stigma. : 
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