66 Mr. W.S. Macrzax on certain general Laws regulating 
arrange Annulose Animals in the same way that M. Fries has 
distributed his Fungi, when it will readily be seen as virtually 
nothing else than the arrangement I offered to the public in the 
lore Entomologice. 'lhus it is only necessary that instead of 
subjecting Nature to arbitrary rules of our own invention, we 
should humbly receive her laws as she clearly proclaims them ; 
when she will indeed appear, as M. Fries has found her to be, 
* ubique varia, semper tamen eadem." 
Classification of AN Nu Losa on the same Principles as those adopted 
by M. Fries in his natural Distribution of Fungi. 
ANNULOSE ÁNIMALS, which are not hermaphrodite: or the 
Annutosa of Scaliger may all be divided into two groups 
founded on their larva or foetus state, viz. i 
1. Apterous Insects, having either no metamorphosis in the 
usual sense of the word, or only that kind of it the ten- 
dency of which is confined to an increase in the number 
of feet. 
of getting their fluids aérated did not the air enter their bodies and penetrate through 
every part of them. But on this head Desfontaines long since set the scientific world 
at rest, when he established the relation of Dicotyledonous Plants to Vertebrata, and of 
Monocotyledonous Plants to 4nnulosa, not on external appearance merely, but on such 
primary principles of their respective structures, that we may almost term the former 
tribe of plants Vertebrated, and the latter Annulose. It would scarcely be fair however 
towards M. Agardh, did we conceal the fact of his being perfectly aware of the analo- 
gies which reign both between the Dicotyledonous Plants and the typical group of Ver- 
tebrata, and between the Fungi and Radiata. With respect to this last analogy, in- 
deed, the following words are perhaps more explicit than those previously published, 
p. 211 of the Hore Entomologice—'* Fungi superiores animalia Radiata ob figuram 
radiantem, ob superficiem nudam, ob texturam laxam, ob colorem subsimilem non male 
revocant." 
These 
