THE 
LONDON JOURNAL OF BOTANY. 
EDITED BY 
SIR W. J. HOOKER, KH., LLD, F.R.S., & LS: 
A Note upon the Genus SaRcoBATUS, Nees. By PROFESSOR 
Lixpzey, Ph. D. &c. &c. 
A figure of this remarkable plant having been published 
lately in the Botanische Zeitung, (p. 753, 1844,) with a short 
account of it by Dr. Seubert, it may be interesting to Botan- 
ists to be informed that it is the Batis ? vermiculata of Sir 
William Hooker, who so called a plant gathered by Douglas 
at the junction of Lewis and Clarke's River and the Columbia. 
That plant was supposed to be a male; and I had entertained 
the same opinion until the appearance of Dr. Seubert's 
figure, which has taught me how to find good female flowers 
in Douglas's specimens. They are extremely minute, buried 
in silky hairs, and completely hidden by the base of the 
leaves. "Their examination has enabled me to determine the 
internal structure of the ovary, which Dr. Seubert does not 
mention. 
|. [he ovary of TEE is one-celled, and it contains one 
- ovule only, rising from the base of the cavity by a very 
short funiculus, and curved downwards, so as to assume the 
condition to which modern Botanists have given the name of 
campylotropal; whether, however, this condition is eventu- 
ally altered I am unable to say: but I presume that the 
flowers I have been able to examine are unimpregnated, for 
the apex of the nucleus projected conser beyong fh 
mouth of the foramen. | 
|... Of the perianth figured by Dr. Sonhert Loan find no trace, 
. unless a brownish transverse lino, which was observable | on 
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