ii. 
HYPECOUM. 795 
The stamina are 8, of these four are opposite the sepals 
so understood, and 4 to the petals, the two outermost of the 
outer series are opposite the scales, and are barren, the two 
next are simply bilocular, according to the tendency shewn 
this way by the antheriform body, testa ejus carina. The 
four inner ones, are united two and two are obviously op- 
posed to the lobes of the antheriform body or petals. 
Thus viewed, the only deviation from the due alternation 
exists in the carpellary leaves, which ought to be opposed to 
the scales or outer sepals, but the subject of the relation of 
these leaves to those of the calyx demands rigid investiga- 
tion. 
Fumariacee are thus quaternary and the Hypothesis of Dr. 
Lindley, so far as Fumaria is concerned is corroborated. If 
the above view is correct the outer scales most form portion 
of the calyx, because as these in the case of their being 
bractez have nothing whatever to do with the flower, there 
would be no reason for the opposition of the outermost sta- 
mina with them. 
What might be the case in a plant with genuine opposite 
leaves is another thing, there is nothing discordant with the 
assumption of a flower of two opposite bractes, and two 
Sepals, with two stamina opposite these bractes. 
Char. generis. Sepala 4 biserialia, exteriora minora, Pe- 
tala 2, triloba lobo medio antheriformi-fimbriato. Stam. 
4,2 sepalis majoribus-2 petalis opposita, antheris biloculari- 
us, 
Fructus seliquiformis. 
Herba tenera fragilis, foliis pinnatis pinnis pinnatisectis, 
inflorescent dichotoma, floribus bilabiatis luteis. 
l. Plant. 
2. Alabastrum. 
3. Flower, inner petaloid sepals removed. 
4. Bud, sepals removed, the two lateral lobes represent 
the petals, the inner, the outer squamiform sepal. 
5. Bud larger sepals removed, one of the petaliform com- 
