ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. aw) 
seem now to be generally agreed upon referring Mympheacee to Dicotyledons. I observe 
moreover, that Von Marties, who once adhered to the opinion, that ymphoeacee are Monoco- 
This order in addition to the peculiarities above cited, affords one of the best examples of 
the gradual transition of sepals into petals, and petals into stamens, there being intermediate 
rows of both, that belong neither to the one set, nor the other. In some as Nymphea, the 
disk is so remarkably developed, that it elevates itself as high as the top of the ovary, to the 
surface of which it adheres, and the stamens being carried up along with it, appear to proceed. 
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Botanists of the age; I shall in preference to attempting to state them in my own words ; again 
have recourse to Dr. Lindley’s assistance, and introduce another extract from his excellent 
Paeonies, with which they agree in the dilated state of the disk, which, in Paeonia papave- 
racea and Moutan, frequently rises as high as the fee of the ovaries, and in the indefinite 
culaceae, the placente only occupy the 
