4 called Brodiea. 5 
the Brodiee, used the word bractee instead of spathe, as more 
agreeable to.nature,. u nun o ay ER 
These difficulties do not trouble the generality of practical 
botanists ; but theoretical ones, before they can found new ge- 
nera, or even understand the old ones to any purpose, are, and 
always have been, obliged to consider them, and may be 
glad of any suggestions on subjects concerning which the chief 
leaders in botany have never agreed together, nor scarcely 
been consistent with themselves. I am persuaded the line of 
discrimination betwixt a calyx and corolla is, in many cases, not 
to be drawn, for this plain reason, that Nature in such cases 
unites both the parts into one, the inner surface performing the 
functions of a corolla, the outer those of a calyx. This is a 
suggestion of Linnzeus, but he has not illustrated it so fully as 
it deserves. Ineed not repeat here what is already before the 
public in another place, Introduction to Botany, 264, 266, and 
267; nor shall I now add any thing more than a wish, that a 
subject so interesting to the physiological as well as the systema- 
tical botanist might be pursued by both to their mutual as- 
sistance. & no. ir E. 
F 3 ; 
“Norwich, March 5, 1808. 
X. Remarks : 
