Liriogame. Cl. 3. Tetre. Orv. 7. CympantHE2. 55 
ncy to roll in acht after "e separate. Their station in 
the Southern Hemis while Bulbocodee are without exception 
confined to the oiii is iu a reason for detaching them, as 
well as their spiked or panicled Inflorescence, nor py Lever observed 
their new Tubers or Bulbs produced laterally as in Bulbocodec, but 
always at the top; po though the young shoot of Methonica rises 
apparently from the bottom, that extremity is in reality the top, the 
crooked Fangs of its Tuber striking downwards. Cymbanthes has 
exactly the Bulb and Foliage of Colchicum, but differs materially in 
its Petals; these are boat-shaped, persistent, with Filaments inserted 
at the tops of their Claws, which are so thick and rounded, that they 
might be regarded as so many 1-androus Flowers surrounding a 
single female, did not analogy prove the contrary; its Anthers split 
towards the Stigmata; the dehiscence of its Capsule is septicidal, 
and the Spike is so close as to resemble a Fasciculus like that of 
Massonia, often however consisting only of 2 or 3 Flowers. Wurm 
has a monopetalous Co Co rolla, to use the old familiar term which De 
CANDOLLE has prov t, pro- 
jecting very curiously Pare ^ promine nt margin à t the base. Orni- 
thoglossum has 6 persistent Petals, but Filanients inserted in the 
Receptacle and NÉ esee —€Ó9 how adverse Nature is to universal 
r = part of 
Laws in alm the Flower; ; - 3 slender Styles are 
also — and its Pericarpium splits at the dorsal 
containing many succulent globular Seeds. iota on the con- 
indy has deciduous Petals and not wedge-shaped: this Genus differs 
from all others of the oe in its long narrow Pericarpium with 3 
Dips oc much ch that I should be gre to compare them living; as 
i ; i AN em 
it from peOvw ebrius sum and vxaw vinco, alluding to its powerful 
intoxicating qualities: no one, to my knowledge, has noticed the 
circular Operculum which covers the melliferous part at the base of 
its Pericarpium, exactly analogous to that of Passifloree in Dicoty- 
ledones, Notocles, so named from the dorsal dehiscence of its Cap- 
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