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restore the precise form after they have once been dried. 

 In all other important particulars, 1 trust my analysis will 

 be found correct. Drege appears only to have gathered the 

 female plant. Zeyher, who has- likewise found this both in 

 fndt and floioer, has discovered the male also. The pollen 

 grains, which appear to be shed under water, are very large 

 for the size of the anther, and constantly set in a double row 

 in each cell. After bursting, the anthers are strongly de- 

 flected outwards, what was the acute base being then the 

 apex; or perhaps it would be more just to describe them as 

 inverted before bursting, and resuming their normal position 

 on dehiscence taking place. The stalks of the male flowers 

 never much exceed the length of the spatha. The pellucid 

 highly cellular leaves have very much the appearance of 

 those of a Mnium. W. H. H. 



Explanation of Figures — Fig. \. Female plant; nat. size: — 

 f. 2. Tip of male branch; nat. size. — -f. 3. Male spatha ;_/. 4. 

 Do. flovvers in cluster ; /. 5. Male flower;/! 6. Young sta- 

 mens to show the pollen; f. 7. Female spatha ; /. 8. Stig- 

 mata if. 9. Ovary ; /. 10. Do. section; f. 11. Do. laid open 

 f. \2. Ovule; /. 13. Leaf: — inagnijied more or less. 



XII. — Biographical Sketch of the late Allan Cunningham, 

 Esq., F.L.S., M.R.G.S., &c. &c. By Robert Hevvard, 

 Esq., F.L.S. 



( With a Portrait.) 

 The late Allan Cunningham was the eldest son of Mr 

 Allan Cunningham, a native of Renfrewshire, N. B. His 

 mother, whose maiden name was Dickin, was a native of 

 Shropshire. She was twice married; first to a Mr Juson, and 

 secondly, on the 20th of August, 1790, to Mr Cunningham, 

 by whom she had two children, — the subject of the present 

 memoir, who was born at Wimbledon, Surry, on the 13th of 

 July, 1791, — and a second son, Richard, born 12th of Febru- 

 ary, 1793.* At this place his parents resided for some time, 



* This only brother of Allan Cunningham was unfortunately killed by 

 the natives of New South Wales, while attached to Major Mitchell's 



