256 Mr. J. Lycett on the Subgenus Limea. 



meaning in which Gallesio used the term, comprehends all that 

 proceeds from one germ, even if multiplied by division. Since 

 the slip-individual is essentially the same as the bud-individual 

 (i. e. shoot-individual), we have four degrees of individuality, in 

 which at least one more might have been easily inserted, between 

 the cell and the shoot-individual), i. e. the member or " story ^^- 

 individual (Gaudichaud^s phyton). With this view Schleiden^s 

 division is connected : he distinguishes the cell as the plant of 

 the first order; the shoot as that of the second, which he calls 

 the simple plant (a term borrowed from C. F. Wolf, who used it 

 in the same sense) ; the whole stock as that of the third order, 

 which he designates as the composite plant. By a searching in- 

 vestigation into the shoot, I shall endeavour to decide whether 

 all these relative individuals can be considered individuals with 

 the same justice ; or whether, after all, one of them does not de- 

 serve the title pre-eminently, corresponding to the animal indi- 

 vidual. In either case Goethe^ s words may be applied with per- 

 fect justice to plants and their individuality : — 



Freuet euch des wahren Scheins, 

 Euch des ernsten Spieles ; 

 Kein Lebendiges ist Eins 

 Immer ist's ein Vieles. 



Herder, in speaking of the works of the Creator, says : "Every 

 one of Thy works Thou makest one and perfect, and like itself 

 alone.^^ 



This sentence presents the other aspect of existence, by which 

 the multiform is one ; and every unity in the one-sidedness and 

 incompleteness of all single manifestations, is after all a perfect 

 whole. These words lead us to the internal essence of things, 

 referring us at the same time to the primary ideas, which Nature 

 comprehends and realizes in Life. 



[To be continued.] 



XXII. — Note on the Subgenus Limea, Bronn. 

 By John Lycett, Esq.* 



The present note is intended to direct attention to a peculiarity 

 connected with the external surface of Limea, trivial in its zoo- 

 logical importance, but which is calculated from its persistency 

 to be a useful aid to the palaeontologist in the absence of hinge 

 characters. 



* Read to the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club, August 28th, 1856. 



