Mr. Brown was so obliging as to point out to us tlic 

 description and figure of M. Desfontaincs, and consequently 

 the station of the plant in M. Decandolle's Prodrumiis. 



Desct'iptiofi of the Dissections. 



1. A leaf. 2. The sepals, stamens, and ovarium, the petals having 

 been taken away. 3. A stamen. 4. An ovarium, with the stigmas. 

 5. A transverse section of the ovarium. G. An ovulum; a, the fora- 

 men; I), the stalk. 7. A capsule, the calyx and involucrum being 

 torn away, all more or less magnified. 8. Seeds, natural size. 9. A 

 seed very much magnified ; b, hilum ; a, point answering to the 

 foramen. 10. A longitudinal section of the same. 11. The embryo 

 separate, much magnified. 



J. L. 



