226 Ot THE FULCRA, 



a right to the name of fulcnim, is found 

 in the Annona heaapetala, Linn. SuppL 

 270. The tlower'Stalk of this tree forms a 

 hook, and grasps the neighbouring branch, 

 serving to suspend the fruit, which is very 

 heavy, resembhng a bunch of grapes, and 

 indicates the plant in question to be either 

 a Michelia or an Uvaria. 



6. Glandula, a Gland, is defined by Lin- 

 naeus as a little tumour discharging a fluid. 

 Such are abundant on the stalk and calyx 

 of a Moss Rose,/. 123, Curt, Mag. t. 6.9, 

 and between the serratures of the leaf of 

 Salix j96'?i^a/?c/rfl. Bay-leaved Willow; also 

 on the footstalks of Viburnum Opulus, 

 Engl. Bot. t. SS9>^ and various species of 

 Passion-flower. The liquor discharged is 

 in the first-mentioned instances resinous and 

 fragrant, in the latter a sort of honey. 



7. P?7ws, /*. 124. A Hair. This, according to 

 the Linnaean definition, is an excretory duct 

 of a bristle-like form. Such it undoubtedly 

 is in the Nettle, Urtica, Engl Bot. t. 148, 

 and t. 1236, whose bristles are tubular and 



