720 FUMARIACEE, 
The male organs consist of two flat membranous com- 
pound filaments, three-toothed at the apex, each tooth bear- 
ing an anther, its veins are three in number of which the 
central one is most distinct. The lateral anthers are uni- 
locular, the central truly bilocular all are extrorse. The 
pollen presents 4, and perhaps more grooves or pores, 
The pistillum consists of a unilocular uniovulate ovarium ; 
an articulated declinate style, with 4 vessels, and a large 
stigma, consisting of two lateral subcornute processes, and 
between these, two rudimentary ones will be found. The 
vessels belonging to these are close together, so that at first 
sight, there would appear to be only three bundles, but pres- 
sure particularly at the apex of the style demonstrates the 
existence of 4. The four stigmata are opposed to the 4 
leaves of the flower. 
This structure is difficult of explanation. 
The two scales may be bractez approximated, closely to 
the flower, in which case the inflorescence if more developed, . 
would—be dichotomous, and in this supposition, the two 
outer larger leaves will be calyx, and the two inner corolla, 
these being opposite to the two scales as they should be. 
Here however the alternation is interrupted the bilocular 
centralanthers are evidently opposed to the outer leaves, 
but the lateral ones have no evident relation, although 
they may be traced to the sides of each lateral inner leaf or 
petal. The four carpellary leaves return as is very common 
to their proper relations, and are opposed to the leaves of the 
perianth. 
The scales have so decided a relation to the bractee in 
structure that I believe this view to be correct. 
There seems to me, to be only one mode of explaining the 
anthers, these are bilocular, the lateral anthers being 
completely divided into two, in which case each anther would 
be opposed to the constituent parts of the envelopes. 
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