AND ANTHERS. 271 



tions of Filaments may be seen in the Tu- 

 lip, where they are six in number, thick 

 and short, Engl Bot. t. 63 ; the Pink, 

 where they are ten, much more slender, 

 and answering to the idea of a filament or 

 thread, t. 62 ; and Anemone, t. 51, where 

 they are numerous. They are commonly 

 smooth, but sometimes, as in Verbascum, 

 t. 58, 59, bearded. In Melaleuca, Exot. 

 ' Bot. t. 36 and 50, they are branched; 

 and in Prunella, Engl. Bot. t. 96l, forked, 

 one pointy only bearing an Anther. In 

 Aristolochia, t. 398, they are wanting, 

 and nearly so in Potamogeton, t. 376, &c. 

 The Anther is the only essential part of 

 a Stamen. It is generally of a membranous 

 texture, consisting of two cells or cavities, 

 bursting longitudinally at their outer 

 edges, as in the Tulip. In Erica, t. 1013 

 — 15, it opens by pores near the summit, 

 as in the Potatoe-blossom. Very rarely 

 the Anther has four cells, as Tetratheca, 

 Bot. of N. Holl. t. 5, and Exot. Bot. 

 f % go* — 22. Sometimes it is ornamented 



* In this plate the engraver has by mistake expressed 

 the section of the anther so as to look more like a ger- 

 men, though the original drawing was correct. 



