more frequently between the two feries, and now and then in 
faded flowers above both. : 
To us it appeared that, if examined in a very early ftate, the 
two feries of anthers were packed clofe together one upon the 
other, and the ftigmas were feen in the middle, even with the 
upper ones; but that in a-little time the longer ftamens fhot 
above them, and the ftigmas paffed out between the filaments, 
and were then found above the lower and under the upper 
feries of anthers, and when the days were cold, this feemed to 
be their permanent fituation ; but when the fun fhone and the 
day was warm, or from fome unknown circumftance, the fhorter 
filaments likewife fhot up above the ftigmas, and thefe were 
found below both feries of anthers. It feemed too that the ftyles 
fometimes began to grow after the filaments had ceafed to do fo, 
and fhot up beyond the longeft ftlamens; but it was only in 
faded flowers that we found the ftigmas in this fituation, and not 
often in thefe. : 
We had no reafon whatever to fuppofe that there could be 
different fpecies in the fame pot; yet, when we find fo ex- 
perienced a Botanift as Jacquin, afferting that he had paid the 
greateft attention to this fubje€t for five fucceflive years, and 
had examined a thoufand individuals without finding the charaéter 
vary, in the fame fpecies, in a fingle inftance, we hefitate to put 
the {fame confidence in our few experiments, as we fhould 
otherwife have done, and muft leave it to farther inveftigation. . 
~ Our drawing was made at Mr. Wittiam Grirrin’s, South- 
Lambeth, in July laft. os pee 
