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under the microscope to be composed of two distinct, though 
connate carpels ; the ovules are few, horizontally attached, or 
somewhat pendulous from narrow axile placentz attached to the 
twofold dissepiment. These are characters that seem to corre- 
spond in great measure with the Bruniacee, with which the habit 
of Lonchostoma does not ill accord. These are merely hasty 
indications, as it would be foreign to the object of the present 
investigation to pursue such inquiries farther. 
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME, 
