GYNANDRIA. 4?7 



ttaller, that " finding Linnaeus deaf to all 

 that had been said, he sent him his treatise, 

 to see whether he would persist in falsify- 

 ing nature/' Thus sordid underlings fo- 

 ment the animosities and flatter the failings 

 of their superiors! Linnaeus judiciously 

 suspended his opinion, and, after all, proves 

 to be most correct, The analogies of the 

 ! Orchidea and ScitaminecB very clearly de- 

 cide that each gland with its double masses 

 of naked pollen can only be considered as 

 one anther of 2 cells or lobes. Even Pe- 

 riploca grteca, though not gymmdrous, 

 confirms this. Each lobe of its anthers 

 stands, as in many Scitaminece, on the 

 outermost edge of the filament ; thus meet- 

 ing that on the adjoining filament, and in 

 appearance constituting with it a 2-lobed 

 anther, as the lobe of the Scitaminece, 

 where there is but one filament, meets its 

 corresponding lobe by embracing the style. 



6. Tlexandria. Aristolochia^ Engl. Bot. 

 t. 398, a curious genus, of which there are. 

 many exotic species, is the only example 

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