^i CONCLUSION. 



2. Stamens — where inserted, if free or coal- 

 €scent with a corolla, a calyx, alterne or oppo- 

 site to them, or united together, with filaments 

 or none, with anthers with 1, 2, 3 or 4 cells — 

 as to numher, if definite or indefinite, isarineor 

 equal to perigone, heterine with less or more, 

 equal or unequal hetween themselves, &.c. 



3. Perigone or floral covering — If simple or 

 double or multij)le, free or coalescent with the 

 pistil, if equal or unequal, with or without cor- 

 olla or inner perigone, whether simple and lat- 

 eral, or with many pericentric petals in one or 

 two rows; or if with a peripetalic corolla, its 

 shape, lobes, persistence, &.c. 



4. The fruits and seeds — Their nature, form, 

 number and structure, cells, partitions, placen- 

 tas, seeds, arillas, embryos. 



5. Accessory parts—Glands, nectaries, scales, 

 appendages, crowns, spurs, and other auxiliary 

 additions to the flowers; lastly bracts, in all 

 their forms and names of Involucre, spatha, per- 

 ianthe, pericline, glume, palea, lepigone, antho- 

 phyle, &.C. besides the various receptacles or 

 supports, phoranthe, gynophore, spadix, col- 

 umn, &.C. 



It is very important neither to invert this Or- 

 der of values, nor to ascribe more power to any 

 than realy can be ascertained. If Botanists 

 would attend to this, they should never join to- 

 gether in the same Genus or family, the plants 

 that offer a difference in the most essential 

 characters. Such as Pistils single or many, 

 free or coalescent, superior and inferior of Lin- 

 neus — Stamens free or united, equal or unequal, 

 few or many, &c. 



They should know that Bracts stand at the 

 very end of the floral series, and altho' useful to 



