J3S GYNANDRIA. 



latter be capsular or glutinous, in short, whatever the 

 appearance or texture of the whole may be. Anoth- 

 er question remains, more immediately to our present 

 purpose, whether these plants have 5 stamens or 10 ? 

 Jacquin, who has well illustrated several of them in 

 his Miscell. Austr. v. \. t. 1 — 4, and Rottboll in a 

 dissertation on the subject, contend for the latter. 

 Rottboll wrote to Haller, that " finding Linn^us deaf 

 to all that had been said, he sent him his treatise, to 

 see whether he would persist in falsifying nature." 

 Thus sordid underlings foment the animosities and 

 flatter the failings of their superiors ! Linnasus judi- 

 ciously suspended his opinion, and, after all, proves 

 to be most correct. The annalogies of the Orchidece 

 and Scitamineie very clearly decide that the 2 cells, 

 or the double masses of naked pollen, can only be 

 considered as one anther of 2 lobes. Even Penploca 

 gra;ca^ though not gynandrous, confirms this. Each 

 lobe of its anthers stands, as in many Scitamineie, on 

 the outermost edge of the filament ; thus meeting 

 that on the adjoining filament, and in appearance con- 

 stituting with it a 2-lobed anther, as the lobe of the Sci- 

 taminecG^whtvG. there is but one filament, meets its cor- 

 responding lobe by embracing the style. 



6. Hexandria. Aristolochia, Engl Bot. t. 398, a curi- 

 ous genus, of which there are many exotic species, is 

 the only example of this, Pistia being removed to 

 Monadelphia Octandria. 



7. Octandria. The Scopolia of Linnasus, whicli origi- 

 nally constituted this Order, proves to be a Daphne .. 



