310 Mr. Sarispury’s Characters of several Genera 
place by the squame, as will appear from his own words. “ La 
fleur femelle est composée de plusieurs ecailles sur les quelles il y a 
des pointes rouges en forme de griffes. A l'autre extremité infe- 
rieure de ces on remarque au cote exterieur des ecailles une eminence en 
forme de levres d'un rouge clair. Comme j'ai observé sur ces levres 
plusieurs vesicules et glandules, je les prens pour le mammelon, ou lori- 
fice du conduit de germe, à quoi elles me semblent étre beaucoup. plus 
propres que les pointes rouges en forme de griffes, qui sont dures et 
_ seches.” Respecting these vesicles and glands I have only to ob- 
‘serve, that the former are nothing but pollen, which is discharged 
in great abundance over every part of the flower, and the latter - 
the. proper pubescence of the squamse. No botanist appears 
to have attended to this subject except Jussieu, who, probably 
having observed the stigmata only after fecundation, describes 
them as glands, and, with that diffidence which is so often the 
concomitant of deep learning, then inquires whether thesquame 
dorsales ought not rather to be considered as styles, and the 
squamse interiores as germina in the Linnzan sense =~ = term. 
This question it is presumed is now fully answered.) 22S oos 
It has been remarked | by our President, that pes errors 5 of ! 
eminent writers are alone worth pointing out ; it becomes there- 
fore here necessary to notice what I conceive to be a funda- 
mental mistake in the great man above mentioned, respecting the 
cotyledons of Pinus; more especially as he isimplicitly copied 
by Michaux, Poiret, and Ventenat. | Nay, the last author has 
one so far as to make Redouté draw the figure after Jussieu's. 
description, instead of the object before him, as Miller did more 
than once in his Illustration of the Sexual System. The bees oc 
men whom we ¢ we all so proud to number as fe! lows of this 
will, I trust, nereniandar any authority, however great 
