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portions oF Filaments may be seen in the 

 Tulip, where they are six in number, thick 

 and short, Engl. Bot. t. 63 ; the Pink, 

 where they are ten, much more slender^ 

 and answering to the idea of a filament or 

 thread, t. 62 ; and Anemone^ t. .51, where 

 they are numerous. Tliey are commonly 

 smooth, but sometimes, as in Verhasciim, 

 t. 58, 59? bearded. In Melaleuca^ Exot. 

 Bof. t. 36 and 50, they are branched : 

 and in Frunclla^ Engl. Bot, t. 96 1, forked, 

 one point only bearing an Anther. In 

 Arhtolochia, t. 398, they are wanting, 

 and nearly so in Fofamogeton, t. 376, &c. 



The Anther is the only essential part of 

 a Stamen. It is generally of a membranous 

 texture, consisting of two cells or cavities, 

 burstino; lonsiitudinallv at their outer 

 edges, as in the Tulip. In Erica ^ t. 1013 

 — 15, it opens by pores near the summit, 

 as in the Potatoe-biossom. Very rarely 

 the Anther has four cells, as Tetrafi;cva, 

 Bof. of N. IIoll. t. 5, and Exot. Ihh 

 t. 20* — 22. Sometimes it is crnamentcd 



* In this plate the engraver has by mistake expre-sied 

 the seclion of the anther so as to look more like a ger- 

 nien, though the original drawing was corr-ct. 



