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corolla be considered as monopetalous, the filaments are 

 attached to the segments. I believe the germen to be 

 solitary, and the capsule to be 3-valved, separating at 

 the furrows. 



38. Triglochin palustre. — September, 1826. — The root (in 

 some circumstances at least) is a creeping one, sending out 

 jointed scaly runners, bulbous at the extremity. Leaves 

 hollow, very fetid when bruised. 



39. Colchicum autumnale. — Cheshire, September 17, 1827. 

 — Flowers produced at the side of the former bulb, which 

 was once the base of the leaves, &c. of the foregoing season. 

 Usually the new plant is attached near the base of the old 

 bulb, but is sometimes placed higher up. As the fructifica- 

 tion advances, the young bulb, at first indistinct, becomes 

 enlarged, and the old one decays, tiie fibrous tuft of roots' 

 belonging to the new bulb. Tube of the corolla triangular, 

 formed of two distinct integuments, imperfectly joined here 

 and there : filaments attached to the tube, with a yellow ob- 

 long gland near their exterior base. Is not this an instance 

 in which calyx and corolla are united ? Leaves usually three, 

 with tubular sheathing bases, one within the other, the inner 

 one intimately connected with the fruit-stalks, which are 

 about half an inch long, above the junction. The lower 

 part I am inclined to consider as a ste7n. 



40. Trientalis europcea. — Killin, July 24, 1827. — The 

 number of the segments of the calyx and corolla vary from 

 six to nine in the same specimen. Filaments attached to the 

 corolla. The seeds^ on their first becoming ripe, have a 

 green testa, covered with the white tunic, they are of a nearly 

 lenticular shape. The inner skin of the testa is the stoutest, 

 and reticulated something like the tunic. Embryo oblong, 

 direct, central within the albumen. The number of the 

 calyx-segments, and those of the corolla, correspond with 

 the number of the stamens in each flower. 



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