218 DEVELOPMENT OF THE OVULUM 
Puate Lvi: F: 
Barclaya, Nympæaceæ. 
. Long section of a flower. 
Anther. 
Ditto cells very small. 
Ditto cells aborted. 
Ovulum before expansion. 
Ditto after expansion. 
Ditto testa removed. 
Mergui: Oct. 25th, 1834. 
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(I doubt much the fact of the non-existence of vessels in 
submerged plants: if the parts of these, that are at some pe- 
riod or other elevated above water, have vessels, whence do 
they originate? As for successive imbibition it takes place 
just as well in vascular, as evascular plants. If we allow 
the function of ducts, I. do not see why we should deny the 
existence of spiral vessels. Where is the difference, since 
they are modifications of one and the same structure? I 
doubt also the stated evascularity of the mistletoe. 
Mergui : November, 1834.) 
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Prate Lvi. E. 
Raphides in ovaria. 
‘On the raphides found in the ovaria of various species of 
Fuchsia. 
While examining the ovarium of the Fuchsia conica and 
its ovula, most of which are sessile while some are furnished 
with a funiculus of considerable length, I was struck with 
the appearance of granules or rather oblong bodies in one of 
the funicules, some of which had nearly reached the hilum. 
Pl. 57, E. Fig |. My first impression was that I had dis- 

