338 CHENOPODIACER. 
Bera. 
Bete sp. Pl. DXXV. Itinerary Notes, p. 216, no. 85. 
Affinitas certe cum Urticeis, forit agrees in habit, in se- 
paration of the sexes, in the male perianth, in the anthers 
and their relation to the leaves of the perianth, in the aggre- 
gation and subcohesion of the female flowers: in the struc- 
ture of their perianth and its relation to the ovary, in the 
structure of this, as well as in the structure of and non-cor- 
respondence in the number of stigmata, and in the ovulum. 
The want of vascularity of the ovarium, and consequently 
of the stigmata is very remarkable. The want of bractez to 
the flowers of female sex, is also worthy of notice. Although 
the stamina have no vessels, and although the female flowers 
may be axillary, still the male flowes are most developed ; 
a fact worthy of much notice. 
The male inforescence is inverse; the female is simply 
axill 
over. 
If Beta had stipules why should it not be Urticeous? 
1. Alabastrum. la. ejus estivation. 
2. Flos. : 
3. Filam apertus, antherz primo corrugate, demum deci- 
ue. è 
4, Anthera dorso. 
5. Pollen. 
6. Pollen immersum žy. 
7. Acervulus florum femin. 
8. Flos segregatus. 
9. Flos apertus longitudinal. 
10. Ovarium. 
11. Ejusdem sectio longitud. 
12. Ovulum , 
13. Viusdéte sectio longitudinal. - 
14, Cellula pedicellata superficiei. 
The c curious cells of the superficies must not be passed | 
