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ineditite sinuses. F. coronata (fig. 20.), on the contrary, has the teeth so deeply 

 divided that they might almost be said to form a calyx of six leaves, leaving 

 little or no continuous margin, and the sinuses are acute. The form of the 

 wiiole fruit is strictly campanulate. F. discoidea of Reichenbach I take to be 

 F. Iiamata with divided teeth. His F. coronata is the plant of De CandoUe. 

 To this we must also refer the F. sicula of Gussone, while the F. coronata of 

 this author is the /^. hamata of De CandoUe. 



I believe I may add to this division a plant which I gathered at Athens in 

 1816, with slender ciliate divisions to the crown, separate down to the base, 

 and which may be called F. ciliata (fig. 22.) ; but the only clear specimen which 

 I have is not far enough advanced to exhibit fully the character of the fruit. 



F. vesicaria (fig. 23.) is correctly described by the Chev. Steven as having 

 a fruit with five cells. It may therefore occupy a division by itself; a di- 

 stinction to which it seems entitled by the peculiarity of its inflated calyx. 



Div. 4. SELENOCCELiE. 



We now arrive at the last division of De CandoUe, in which he places two 

 species, — V. platyloba, a name of Dufresne, synonymous with the F. rotata of 

 Reichenbach, as corrected in page 93 of PL Cr., and f\ carinata, the fruit of 

 which is not at all keeled. The appearance of the fruit in these species has 

 nothing in common, except the peculiarity which forms the artificial charac- 

 ter ; and this, as figured by De CandoUe in his M^moire sur la Famille des 

 yaldrian^es, and by Reichenbach in his Plantce Criticce, does not seem very 

 clear, depending rather on the convex or concave line assumed by the internal 

 face of each empty cell than on any more durable or important difference. 

 This line might be supposed to take a different curve without any change of 

 structure ; and I have already noticed that it is sometimes observable in the 

 dried seeds of F. Auricula, a plant certainly not belonging to this division. 

 In the plates of De CandoUe (fig. 25.) and of Reichenbach (fig. 24.) the disse- 

 piment between these barren cells is represented as very narrow. In some 

 specimens of F. carinata, gathered by Mr. E. Forster near Ongar in Essex 

 (fig. 27.), the dissepiment is much broader, the cells lying side by side. Of 

 the specimens of Steven (fig 26.) I did not presume to make a section. In the 

 F. turgida, a plant clearly belonging to this division by the crescent-shaped 



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