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REFERENCES TO THE FIGURES. 



Tab. XIX. Fig. 1. A seed in the earliest stage of germination 



yet observed. 



2. The same more advanced. 



3. Its seed-coat removed to show the vitellus of 



Brotero adhering. 

 4, 5. Still more advanced. 

 6. An anther. 



7- The same splitting and discharging its yel- 

 low pollen: I find no difference between 

 this pollen and that of other Lycopodiums, 

 which has been regarded as seed. 

 8, 9. Upper and under surfaces of a capsule, the 

 latter showing its pedicellus. 

 aaaa. The part described for stigma by Brotero: 

 it is thinner and more transparent than 

 the rest of the capsule. 

 10. A capsule burst naturally, with its four seeds. 

 11,12. Two views of a seed more magnified, the 

 latter showing its hilum and three-radiated 

 mark. 



13. A transverse section, filled with white gru- 



mous albumen ? 



14. One of the reticulated areas of the cuticle, 



highly magnified, in the centre of which, 

 while young, there is a succulent bristle 

 green at the point. 



XXV. Some 



