A66 gynandria. 



it worth while to dispute whether this whole 

 body be a stigma or not, with regard to 

 the question under consideration, for it is 

 borne by the styles, above the germen, and 

 itself bears the anthers. I humbly con- 

 ceive, however, with Linnaeus and Jacquin, 

 that as part of it, at least, receives the 

 pollen, stigma is full as good a name for 

 this body as Mailer's term dolinm> a tub ! 

 Still less is it worth while to controvert with 

 Kblreuter the propriety of the term pollen, 

 because the substance in question is not 

 actually a dry powder, any more than in 

 the Orchis tribe, or in Mirabilis, Evot. 

 Hot. t. 23. That term is technically used 

 for the matter which renders the seeds fer- 

 tile, including its vehicle, whether the 

 latter be capsular or glutinous, in short, 

 whatever the appearance or texture of the 

 whole may be. Another question remains, 

 more immediately to our present purpose, 

 whether these plants have 5 stamens or 10? 

 .iacquin, who has well illustrated several of 

 them in his MiscdL Austr. v. 1. t. 1 — 4, 

 andllottboll in a dissertation on the subject, 

 contend for the latter. Rottboll wrote to 



