IQS BRITISH Sf^E^^^Ei of ^RdsBRi*^* 



aiul mnnr Bri- species*; mu] lits opinioij lias been stipportid in Britain \rir 



tish Ixdaiu&ts. _' , m •»,•-.«• 1 • - • . . . , " , 



Hutlsoii, l.t«;f»tioot, VN itluriu^'^ Smith, and otper hoU*"> ^ 



ni»t>', if I' luay judge from the arrangement, whrch tbieM*; 



Fea?o»w for celehratrd men have followed in their diifcrent worTk?, A^- 



jiccpdiiie to I j^^^^ coucnr in seiuimcnt *vith IJaller, it i* inv dntv t<K : 

 this opiinoH. . ' ' 



ineiitioti the reasoiis which led nie to adopt his opininn^aud 



therefore I shall now present a statement of my observa- 

 tions, whicli wasdraun upon the !7th oi* last July, a day 

 on which I examined some hundred plants. 



Kon.t>er of Of 120 plants of the d. rotundifolia from Paisky jMj>s»* ?. 



flower* on the . « i * 



f cape of d. 1 had a scape which bore ^ dower*^*^ ^^** •'^^ ''^"' 



lutuiulifoUa. ^ \^..^j^ i=^V'^Sf ilitt!a''^ ^''^ '" ' «*'^*** 



13 : .^':.<'*4%ii^'' ^'^'^ -d»"'»w'J^*' 



i9'':.V2lA vi:^i^/.'%d!ftS" '^*'' S'»'f?^ 



17 '••!.- 'Jl.'ii' ...... i''»^i^'i'^*%"'^i^t^ »«i£ii>h| gniiioi' 



•''•^•iiiv.:^:'i,^:?l^;vi'..io ditto -^'^"^- ^- 

 4 .i.i-^^^.^'^fi-v.Aimio^c''"^'^^ ^^'^^" 



■-.■)it.. c» 



126 :. . "oM biofiiiiT ui ,b«\nc 



Of the same number of ptants df U Pw^^ffemi^in^ii^ 



froin Paisley Moss; .''''''' "' '"' ' ''^'" <: -'-^"^ J^^^^ 



ar.i ^f d. Ion- _^Ji;vd J^CI^pe w^ii^^^Jj^e., J f^^p ,.^,^,,r^ .^.3,, 



'*'*-'''''^ITon ■'**"'^ .midr iit>:.l*v?l o) ,h'X^,'icd:f ja '{I/mI •' 

 • i .. .%u . - :i» ^v-;;i-HMft!U i/va.^- '-.f .\ -vj 'O uii ■■•lai fj^r.^.'- 

 NQ^.^p^ p0IJ>p^inrig the«e tables,, <th« difTerfnce jn, ;tKe, 



nimbcjf of {!ov/ era borne by the d. rotundifolia and loD^i?^. 

 folia mf^-^t be obvious, for in the one, the scape fprthf 

 most part supported from 4 to Q^ ia the qther-j pj^ly. ^"^J^' 

 2 to 4 f!ower». ^ I/mtn«>ha i^^vl 



I>.H>renc«R n 1 shaU in the n**!! place tipticei^lie 9G^pe,1k^<li9^T«;8,:,,.(i 

 ^I,ie scape, ^ . , ' •■*.•. 



♦ S»* MiUw'S DieiJonafT. 



From 



