"TRANSACTIONS 
LINNEAN SOCIETY. 
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I. Observations on the Perigynous Ingo of the Stamina of 
Plants. By Richard Anthony Salisbuby, Esq. F.R.S. V. P. L.S. 
Read March ¥5, 1803. 
ha following Observations bayo been hastily ‘committed to 
paper, to excite the attention of those Botanists, whom I might 
have the honour of addressing this evening, to a very important 
branch of their favourite science; namely, that insertion of the 
Stamina which the celebrated Jussieu has denominated Perigy- 
nous: for I lament that as yet I have not met with one of our 
own countrymen, who had ever thought about tbe subject at all. 
I presume that this perigynous insertion is entirely factitious, or 
in other words, which you will all comprehend whether you have 
read Jussieu’s book or not, that there is no instance W i 
the whole Vegetable Kingdom, of Stamina being inserted in the 
. Calyx. Nor is this mere logomachia, or a cavil respecting terms : 
for, if my ideas be true, the difficulty of distinguishing Calyx 
. from Corolla will rarely occur, and the designation of each of 
those parts correspond more exactly with its real office and im- 
portance in the Vegetable Economy. : 
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