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than a hardy Aconite, with undivided ( I) leaves, which are 
merely crenated, and embrace the stems. It has been intro- 
duced from Cashmere by the Hon. Court of Directors of the 
East India Company. The flowers are in loose pyramidal 
racemes, dull purplish green, and before they expand, there 
1$ scarcely any thing to be seen except the round helmet. 
119. EUTHALES macrophylla; caule erecto crasso ramoso, foliis oppositis 
petiolatis oblongis dentatis, floribus laxé dichotomé paniculatis. 
A very fine herbaceous plant from Swan River, with a 
stout fleshy stem, 2 feet high, broad deep-green leaves, 6 
inches long, and large showy yellow and brown flowers. 
Altogether it grows from 3 to 4 feet high. Flowered in the 
garden of the Horticultural Society in May and June, from 
seeds purchased of Mr. James Drummond, and it now seems 
likely to go on producing its blossoms for two months longer. 
UPON THE COLLECTING HAIRS OF CAMPANULA. 
There are the following very interesting observations upon 
this curious subject, by M. Adolphe Brongniart, in a recent 
number of the Annales des Sciences. 
** It has long been known that the external surface of the 
upper part of the style and of the stigmatic arms of Campa- 
nulaceous plants is covered with long hairs, which are very 
visible in the bud, before the dispersion of the pollen, and 
which are regularly arranged in longitudinal lines in direct 
relation to the number and position of the anthers. | 
“ 'These hairs and their connection with the pollen, at first 
remarked by Conrad Sprengel in several species of Campa- 
nula, and afterwards by Cassini, with more care, in Cam-, 
panula rotundifolia, have been observed by M. Alphonse 
DeCandolle in the whole Campanulaceous order, with the 
exception of the small genus Pefromarula. At the period 
of dehiscence of the anthers, before the expansion of the 
corolla, and when the arms of the style are still pressed 
against each other in the form of a cylinder, these hairs cover 
themselves with a considerable guantity of pollen, which they 
brush, so to speak, out of the cells of the anther; and for 
this reason they have been named, like the analogous hairs 
in Composite, Collectors. 
* At the period when the flower expands, the arms of the 
