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Ci/pripedium, which belongs to the next Order. I 

 am induced to consider the bulk of this family as 

 7nonandrous, upon a careful review of Professor 

 Swartz's representation of the subject, in his excel- 

 lent treatise, just come to my hands in English. See 

 Tracts ixlative to Botany translated from different 

 Languages (by Mr. Konig), printed for Phillips 

 and Fardon, 1805. I have already, /;. 207, men- 

 tioned the glutinous nature of the pollen of these 

 plants. This forms yellow elastic masses, often 

 stalked, in each cell of the anther, and the cells are 

 eitlier parallel and close together, or removed from 

 each other to the opposite sides of the style : which 

 serves to connect them, just as the filament does in 

 many Scitamineous plants, alike therefore decided 

 to be monandrous. Such a decision with reo;ard to 

 those also is justified by the analogy of other species, 

 whose cells being approximated or conjoined, pro- 

 perly constitute but one anther. The grand and ab- 

 solute subdivision of the Orchidecz is justly founded 

 by Dr. Svvartz, after Haller, on the structure of the 

 anther^ whether it be, as just described, parallel^ 

 like that of Orchis, Engl. Bot. t. 22 ; Ophrys, 

 t. 6.5 ; and Diuris, E.vot. Bot. t. 9j &c. ; or ver- 

 ticcd, consisting of a moveable lid on the top of the 

 style, like Dendrobium, t. 10 — 12 ; or Mala.ris, 

 Engl. Bot. t, 72. The style of the Orchidece has 

 been called a column, but I think that term now 

 altogether superfluous. It is really a style, and the 



