22(j OF THE FULCRA, 



a right to the name of fulcrum, is found 

 in the Annona hexapetala, Linn. Suppl. 

 270. The flower-stalk of this tree forms a 

 hook, and grasps the neighbouring branch, 

 serving to suspend the fruit, which is very 

 heavy, resembling a bunch of grapes, and 

 indicates the plant in question to be either 

 a Michelia or an Uvaria. 



6. Glandula, a Gland, is defined by Lin- 

 naeus as a little tumour discharging a fluid. 

 Such are abundant on the stalk and calyx 

 of a Moss Rose, Curt. Mag. t. 69, and 

 between the serratures of the leaf of Saliv 

 pentandra, Bay-leaved Willow; also on 

 the footstalks of Viburnum Opulus, Engl. 

 Bot. t. 33 c 2, and various species of Passion- 

 flower. The liquor discharged is in the first 

 mentioned instances resinous and fragran , 

 in the latter a sort of honey. 



7. Pilus. A Hair. This, according to the Lin- 

 mean definition, is an excretory duct of a 

 bristle-like form. Such it undoubtedly is it 

 the Nettle, Urtica, Engl Bot. t. 143, and 

 1. 1236, whose bristles are tubular and per- 



