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corolla be considered as monopetalous, the filaments are 
attached to the segments. I believe the germen to be 
solitary, and the capsule to be 3-valved, separating at 
the furrows. 
.. 88. Triglochin palwstre.—September, 1826.—The root (in 
some circumstances at least) is a creeping one, sending out 
jointed scaly runners, bulbous at the extremity. Leaves 
hollow, very fetid when bruised. 
39. Colchicum autumnale.— Cheshire, September 17, 1827. 
—Flowers produced at the side of the former bulb, which 
was once the base of the leaves, &c. of the foregoing season. 
Usually the new plant is attached near the base of the old 
bulb, but is sometimes placed higher up. As the fructifica- 
tion advances, the young bulb, at first indistinct, becomes 
enlarged, and the old one decays, the fibrous tuft of roots 
belonging to the new bulb. Tube of the corolla triangular, 
formed of two distinct integuments, imperfectly joined here 
and there: filaments attached to the tube, with a yellow ob- 
long gland near their exterior base. Is not this an instance 
in which calyx and corolla are united? Leaves usually three, 
with tubular sheathing bases, one within the other, the inner 
one intimately connected with the fruit-stalks, which are 
about half an inch long, above the junction. The lower 
part I am inclined to consider as a stem. 
40. Trientalis europea.—Killin, July 24, 1827.— The 
number of the segments of the calyz and corolla vary from 
six to nine in the same specimen. Filaments attached to the 
corolla. The seeds, on their first becoming ripe, have à 
green testa, covered with the white tunic, they are of a nearly 
lenticular shape. The inner skin of the testa is the stoutest; 
and reticulated something like the tunic. Embryo oblong, 
direct, central within the albumen. The number of the 
calyx-segments, and those of the corolla, correspond. with 
the number of the stamens in each flower. 
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