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4 Mr. SauisBury on the Perigynous Insertion 
and very clearly proves the inconsistency of the notion, that in 
the whole tribe of Monocotyledones, what we vulgarly call the 
Flower is a true Calyx: indeed I nearly agree with Mirbel re- 
specting these two parts, though sal conclusions are drawn from 
very different premises. : 
As the insertion of the Stamina appears to me of so much con- 
sequence in putting an end to all our doubts, previously to men- 
tioning the most striking instances I have met with, I must tres- 
pass upon your time and attention, while I briefly state the opi- 
nions that have hitherto prevailed respecting Calyx and Corolla. 
With the immortal Linnés doctrine, that the Calyx is a conti- 
nuation of the outer, and the Corolla of the inner bark, we are 
here all perfectly acquainted; and that in some plants which 
have only one of the above-mentioned integuments, he thought 
it of so little moment, by which of those titles the part was 
described, that he says “ Corolla (vel si mavis) Calyx.” In his 
golden legacy, the Philosophia Botanica, he observes, ** Limites 
** inter calycem et corollam absolutos, naturam non posuisse, patet ex 
* Daphnide, ubi connata ambo et margine unita veluti folium Buzi.” 
This however is not the case in all the species of that genus: 
stronger instances of one running gradually into the other, may 
be seen in Delphinium, Ranunculus, Nymphea, Castalia, and Mag- 
nolia ; notwithstanding which I have not the smallest doubt of 
their being perfectly distinct organs, and performing totally dif- 
ferent functions. For, similar arguments might be produced to 
.confound all the ‘other parts of the flower: in some species of 
Erica, the upper leaves change insensibly into Bractez: in the 
common Holly, the Pedunculus itself becomes soft and of a fine 
scarlet colour like the fruit: in Crategus the Calyx is frequently 
persistent and pulpy like the Pericarpium : in Zllicium Floridanum, 
m Petals insensibly grow narrower and so like the filaments, that 
: they 
