112 DEVELOPMENT OF THE FLOWER 
Series B.—Stamina more developed, outline somewhat 
rhomboidal, with a deep fissure along the margins, the 4 
loculi are marked out, those of the inner ones being the 
most turgid. The cellular tissue still indistinct, pressure 
causes the separation of an amorphous (in itself) grumous very. 
minutely granular mass. (Amorphous is not a correct term, 
because it must have the form of the cavity containing it.) 
The opacity of the anther is greatest on either side of the 
connective, which now exists. The turgidity disappears on 
slight pressure, (whether from all the cells or only from 
the inner, or only from the outer I can’t say.) As does the 
appearance of quadrilocularity. 
. Back view. 
2. Inner ditto. 
3. Portion of the grumous contents. 
Series C.— The process of the filament ? now exists, and 
appears as if embracing in its axilla the stamen. The anther 
has now assumed its perfect figure, it is curved inwards, is 
distinctly cellular, and quadrilocular. The cells contain a 
mass of grumous fuscescent matter, composed of minute 
granules of different sizes, held together by a mucilaginous 
looking substance. 
ack view of a stamen. 
2. Lateral ditto. 
3. Part of the contents of a cell. 
Series D.—The process of the filament slightly 3-toothed, 
reaching one-third up the anther. 
It is at this period that the chief changes occur. The gru- 
mous homogeneous contents of the cells of the former pe- 
riod, now present distinctly, traces of cellular subdivision. 
Query. Is the cellular mass now existing, the grumous 
mass of before ; and are the nuclei now part of the grumous 
matter as it then existed ? Or is the cellular mass and its 
contents a new formation ? 
Each division contains a conformable grumous nucleus, 
a, and is a distinct cell, at least I do not see a continuous 
membranous edge to the mass, which is however in some 
measure obscured by adhesion of grumous matter. The 
