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number. I am disposed to consider it a Potentilla. Seeds 

 slightly stalked, receptacle a little hairy. No separate albu- 

 men : inner skin of the seed purple, outer hard and bony. 



24. Drosera longifolia. — Anglesea, July 19, 1828. — Fila- 

 ments dilated at the top, hence the cells of the oblong anther 

 are separated and placed at the back of the filament. Pollen 

 in congregated masses of 8 or 10 globules. Stigmas deeply 

 cloven. (S^?//'es 8, incurved. Seeds xoxx^^, not winged or chaffy. 

 A monstrous flower was observed with one germen enclosed 

 in another, and a third within the second ; the external one 

 open at the top and fringed with styles and abortive anthers. 

 Rudiments of seeds lined the inner surface as usual. The 

 inner germen had styles and anthers intermixed, and was 

 closed at the top : the innermost more imperfectly formed, 

 but with rudiments of styles. There were eight petals and 

 about six perfect stamens in the flower. 



Dried specimens, gathered in Cheshire, abounded with 

 colouring matter, and stained the paper in which they were 

 placed, after having been dried, of a deep rusty red colour, 

 which also penetrated several contiguous sheets. Drosera 

 rotundijblia, in the same sheet, was found to possess a similar 

 property, in a much slighter degree. — November, 1828. 



25. Drosera rotundifolia. — 1822. — The seeds are chaffy, or 

 tunicated, smaller than in D. anglica. 



26. Drosera anglica. — Woolston Moss, near Warrington, 

 September, 1822. — Seeds chaffy, very different from those of 

 Z). longifolia. Tunic membranous, smooth, la^, (in Z). longifolia 

 it tightly encloses the seed, and is rough or papillose.) Einbryo, 

 at the lower end of the seed, dicotyledonous. 



27. Scilla verna. — Anglesea, May 7, 1828. — Petals some- 

 what slightly keeled on the inner side, with a slightly prominent 

 line below, the keel of a deeper blue than the other parts. — 

 Filaments evidently flattened, dilated below, subulate. The 

 petals frequently oblong or lanceolate. Flowers sweet-scented. 

 — Does it really differ from Ornithogalum, ? 



28. Anthericum serotinum. — June 27, 1828. — Wales. — 

 Fhwer-stalk invested with its own sheath, and separated by 



