GYNANDRIA. 4.59 



Professor Swartz's representation of the 

 subject, in his excellent treatise, just come 

 to my hands in English. MWTracts rela- 

 tive to Botany tranrfatecQtom different 

 Languages (by Mr. Kbnig), printed for 

 Phillips and Fardon, 1805. I have al- 

 ready, p. 272, mentioned the glutinous 

 nature of the pollen of these plants. This 

 forms yellow elastic masses, often stalked, 

 in each cell of the anther, and the cells are 

 either parallel and close together, or re- 

 moved from each other to the opposite 

 gides of the style : which serves to connect 

 them, just as the filament does in many 

 Scitamineous plants, alike therefore decided 

 to be monanclrous. Such a decision with 

 regard to those also is justified by the ana- 

 logy of other species, whose cells being- 

 approximated or conjoined, properly con- 

 stitute but one anther. The grand and 

 absolute subdivision of the Orchidete is 

 justly founded by Dr. Swartz, after Haller, 

 on the structure of the anther, whether it 

 be, as just described, parallel, like that of 

 Orchis, Engl. But. U c 22 ; Ophrys, t.65; 

 and Diurh, Eiot. Bot. t. 9, &c; or ver« 



