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terminal than the female, and that the female organ is 
far more permanent than the male, since these are pro- 
vided, with rudiments of females, indeed to a consider- 
able amount of development. 
he change of structure towards the apex of the filament 
appears due to a condensation of structure, no fibrous 
cells exist in the anther, which however dehised perfectly. 
The filaments are evascular. The venation of the corolla 
is Brunonian. The structure of the ovarium is very cu- 
rious and merits further investigation. If the membranous 
separable inner coats be really the ovarium, it forms a 
transition to certain cases of Dipsacez and Scævoleæ, it 
affords a most anomalous instance of the possibility of the 
style being vascular, while the ovarium is evascular. 
Of the structure of the fruit I have little doubt; the outer 
tegument of the akenuim appears to me to be calycine, the in- 
ner belongs to the embryonary sac, which there is some rea- 
son for supposing to be the most permanent coat of an ovu- 
lum, as it is the last in formation, its structure in Composite 
is peculiar, consisting of a single series of cells, each of 
which has a grumous nucleus. 
There is considerable affinity, between this Gnaphalioide# 
and the monocotyledonous-looking plant of the same order; 
from Abigoon, see Itinerary Notes p. 232, no. 231. And I 
may here mention that this transitionary appearance exists 
at its maximum, in a plant, which I suspect to be Roxburgh’s 
ZEthulia axillaris. | l 
2. Gnaphalii sp. Pl. CCCCLXVIII, 
Planta minima canescens radiati-ramosa. Folia ad basin 
caulis et subinflorescentias aggregata, linearia revoluta vel 
patent. Capituli compositi dense arachnoidei nivei. Partialis 
subrotundis, paucifloris. Squamis cymbiformibus marginibus 
approximatis et arachna dense quasi clausis, ore tantum e 
scure hiantibus, extimis minoribus 5 intimis subverticillatis 
radiatis, exceptis omnibus fæmineis, 
