OTNANDRIA. 450 



Professor Swartz's representation of tlie 

 subject, in his excellent treatise, just come 

 to my hands in Enghsh. See Tracts rda* 

 the to Botunij translated from different 

 Languages (by Mr. Kbnio), printtd for 

 Phillips and P^ardon, 1805. I have al- 

 ready, /;. 272, mentioned the glutinous 

 nature of the pollen of these plants. This 

 forms yellow elastic masses, oft-'u stalked, 

 in each cell of the anther, and the cells are 

 either parallel and close together, or re- 

 moved from each other to the opposite 

 sides of the style : which serves to connect 

 them, just as the filament does in many 

 Scitamineous plants, alike therefore decided 

 to be monandrous. Such a decision uith 

 regard to those also is justified bv the ana- 

 logy of other species, whose cells being 

 approximated or conjoined, properly con- 

 stitute but one anther. The grand an4 

 absolute subdivision of the Orchidece is 

 justly founded by Dr. Swartz, after Hailer, 

 on the structure of the anther, whether it 

 be, as just described, /;«ro//t7, like that of 

 Orchh, Engl. Bot. t. 22 ; Ophri/s, t. 65 ; 

 jilid Diuris, Exot, Bot, t. 9? <^c. ; or rer- 



