724 FUMARIACEX. 
most curious appearance, and one which shews obviously a 
tendency to pass into anthers, indeed being the expansion of 
the flowers, casual observation might easily suppose that they 
were a bona fide part of the male apparatus, which at any 
rate they certainly aid, for the fimbriated lobe embraces the 
anther, and thus prevents the dispersion of the pollen in the 
wrong direction. Its appearance or resemblance to an an- 
ther is likewise pointed out by the carina, which may be 
seen on its centre of its inner surface, and is analogous to 
the septum of a locellus of bilocular anther, 
The structure of the anthers is curious in as much as it 
points out, that there is a strong tendency to the existence of 
bilocular and unilocular anthers in the family, and tends to 
disprove the idea that all are unilocular, some becoming 
bilocular by adhesion, for there is no proof whatever that 
those opposite the sepals are compound. 
The alternation of the parts remains to be explained. 
We have two outer scales, with which 2 sepals alternate, 
opposite the scales a trilobed body of petaloid nature, and 
opposite these two compound stamina and the sepals 2 
simple stamina, my idea is this, that the outer scales form part 
of the calyx, which is hence biseriate. The petals are 
represented by the lobes attached to the antheriferous body, 
from which their venation is distinct botb in nature and 
origin. 
Stamina. 
Corroborated by development, the antheriform part formed 
first and cæteris paribus the soonest developed, the sta- 
mina opposed to the large sepals open first. 
