PLANTA CELLULARES. 3 
than the back of the ovaries; this, at least, seems certain, 
that if they are scales, they are completely consolidated 
with the ovaries at an early period. The seeds of authors 
appear to me to be the cells of the ovary, very easily sepa- 
rated no doubt. My reasons for entertaining that opinion 
are, first, that they evidently cohere around their axis by the 
whole of their inner edge; secondly, that they have that 
tough fibrous horizontal texture, which is a characteristic of 
the endocarp, but which I do not remember having observed 
in seeds ; and thirdly, that they are invariably empty of any 
thing except a small brownish corpuscule at their base, 
which I take to be the abortive ovule. And this seems to 
explain why nobody has been able to make out the structure 
of Batis seeds; empty carpels, containing an abortive ovule 
having been the parts examined, and not the seeds themselves. 
It is very much to be desired that ripe seeds should be ob- 
tained, and any West Indian botanist who would send them 
home would be rendering a good service to science. That 
British botanists should be ignorant of the structure of one 
of the commonest plants in one of their oldest colonies is 
certainly not a thing to be proud of. B 
PLANTÆ CELLULARES quas in insulis Philippinensibus a 
cl. CUMING collecte recensuit, observationibus non nullis de- 
scriptionibusque illustravit, C. MONTAGNE, D.M. 
(Continued from p. 662 of Vol. III.) 
Licnenss, Fries. 
31. Opegrapha, comma, Ach. Syn. Lich. p. 3. var. ‘tenella, 
Montag.—Graphis fenella, Ach. l. c. p. 80.—Coll. n. 
2160. 
32. O. rigida Fée, Essai, p. 29 et Suppl. p. 23, t. 35. f. 5. 
O. crusta hypophlæode lævigata fulva linea nigra limitata; _ 
apotheciis erumpentibus (plerisque) simplicibus elevatis elon- - 
gatisque rigidiusculis æut et flexuosis utroque apice obtusis - 
marginibus patulis medio sulcatis interdum pulvere albo (an 
pep 2 nu = atro opaco mere s üpe 
QOO mp | SUR CHR 2 sapete : , 
