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EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. . 
Fig. 1-6. Cuscuta Cephalanthit.—1. A tetramerous ; 2, a pentame- 
rous flower. 3. Corolla laid open, 4. The ovary. 5. Vertical sec- 
tion of a half-grown capsule. 6. Capsule invested by the remains of | 
the corolla. 
Fig. 7=11. C. Coryli.—7. we: 8. Corolla laid open. 9. Ova- 
ty and styles. 10. Same of var. 11. Capsule invested by the re- 
mains of the corolla. t 
Fig. 12-16. C. vulginaga. —12-14. Flowers. 15. Corolla laid open. 
16, Ovary. 
Fig. 17-21. C. Saururi. San, The flower. 18. Corolla laid open, 
with the inflexed scales. 19. Ovary. 20. Vertical section of the half- 
grown capsule. 21. Mature capsule. _ 
__ Fig. 22-24. C. pentagona.—22. Flower. 23, Corolla laid open. 
24. Ovary. 
Fig. 25.. C. verrucosa. —Flowe 
Fig. 26-29. C. Polygonorum. 96. Flower. 27. Corolla laid open. 
28. Ovary. 29. Capsule. ee 
Fig. 30-35. Lepidanche ee ae Flower of var. «. 
31. Flower of var. 8. 32. Corolla of 8. laid open. 38. Ovary and 
Styles of var. a. 84. Same of 8. 35. Capsule. 
N. B. The flower represented in fig. 1, is a line in length; all the 
others are enlarged in the same ee ' 
Md , = ~ + 
Arr. ViL—A Catalogu of the Manmalia of Cohideticul, ar- 
ranged ng to their natural families ; furnished for the 
Yale Natural ey Society, by Rev. James H. Linsey, Mem- 
ber of the Conn. Acad. of Arts and Sciences, of the Yale Nat. 
Hist. Soc., of the Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist., d&c.- 
Read before the Yale Natural History Society, AOS, 
To tue SEcRETARY OF THE YALE Naturat History Socrery— 
My dear Sir—At the request of several members of. the Con- 
necticut Academy, to furnish a catalogue of the class Mammalia 
of this State, I take the liberty to present it to the Yale Natural 
History Society, as falling more ApETpaMeLY. under their atten- 
tion and direction. 
In order-to avoid compiling a catalogue derived simply from 
books, as has been too often done without any advantageous re- 
sults, I have delayed presenting mine, in order to make myself 
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