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mediate sinuses. F. coronata (fig. 20.), on the contrary, has the teeth so deeply 
divided that they might almost be said to form a calyx of six leaves, leaving 
little or no continuous margin, and the sinuses are acute. The form-of the 
whole fruit is strictly campanulate. F. discoidea of Reichenbach I take to be 
F. hamata with divided teeth. His F. coronata is the plant of De Candolle. 
To this we must also refer the F. sicula of Gussone, while the F. coronata of 
this author is the V. hamata of De Candolle. 
I believe I may add to this division a plant which I gathered at Athens in 
1816, with slender ciliate divisions to the crown, separate down to the base, 
and which may be called F. ciliata (fig. 22.) ; but the only clear specimen which 
I have is not far enough advanced to exhibit fully the character of the fruit. 
F. vesicaria (fig. 23.) is correctly described by the Chev. Steven as having 
a fruit with five cells. It may therefore occupy a division by itself; a di- 
stinction to which it seems entitled by the peculiarity of its inflated calyx. 
Div. 4. SELENOC@L2. 
We now arrive at the last division of De Candolle, in which he places two 
species, —. platyloba, a name of Dufresne, synonymous with the F. rotata of 
Reichenbach, as corrected in page 93 of Pl. Cr., and F. carinata, the fruit of 
which is not at all keeled. The appearance of the fruit in these species has 
nothing in common, except the peculiarity which forms the artificial charac- 
ter; and this, as figured by De Candolle in his Mémoire sur la Famille des 
Valérianées, and by Reichenbach in his Plante Critice, does not seem very 
clear, depending rather on the convex or concave line assumed by the internal 
face of each empty cell than on any more durable or important difference. 
This line might be supposed to take a different curve without any change of 
structure ; and I have already noticed that it is sometimes observable in the 
dried seeds of F. Auricula, a plant certainly not belonging to this division. 
In the plates of De Candolle (fig. 25.) and of Reichenbach (fig. 24.) the disse- 
piment between these barren cells is represented as very narrow. In some 
specimens of F. carinata, gathered by Mr. E. Forster near Ongar in Essex 
(fig. 27.), the dissepiment is much broader, the cells lying side by side. Of 
the specimens of Steven (fig. 26.) I did not presume to make a section. In the - 
F. turgida, a plant clearly belonging to this division by the crescent-shaped 
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