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opposite to the petals and alternate with the outer row of stamens," 
etc. etc. 
This is to me only another proof of the stipule nature of the corona, 
for if it be considered as an appendage of overlapping sepals and 
petals, the appendages would naturally overlap in a similar manner, 
as we really find it here, the outer segment of corona belonging to the 
outer segment of perianth, and the inner to the inner. The same 
author's observations regarding the not uncommon ocenrrence of the 
coronal segments distinet and separate from each other only reverts 
the corona to the somewhat more remote type of Fig. 2, with discon- 
nected stipules. 
t may be objected that stipules of no sort form any character of 
the Natural Order Amaryllidacee, but the answer to this is, that 
stipules have little or no value as a family character, as in Hederacee 
(or Araliacee) stipules are present in some genera and absent in others ; 
this I consider as exactly equivalent to the presence or absence of 
the corona in the genera of Amaryllidacee. That the abnormal growths 
of the corona of Narcissus sometimes more nearly approach the true 
form of stipules may be seen in Fig. 9, drawn from abnormal growths 
of the plant I have recently observed. 
The scales of Cuscuta and other appendages in corolla-tubes may 
have a similar origin to the corona of Narcissus. 
STIRPIUM NOVARUM TETRAS. 
Auctore HENR. F. Hance, Pn.D., Soc. Rec. Bor. Rariss. 
SODALI, CJET. 
l. Gymnosporia Harlandi, n. sp. ; erecta, robusta; cortice purpuras- 
centi, foliis alternis rigide coriaceis glaberrimis siccitate glaucescentibus 
ovali-oblongis obtusis margine obsolete crenulatis basi in petiolum à 
brevem late cuneatis penninerviis nervis utrinque leviier prominulis, 
ens validis axillaribus curvulis petioli cire. longitudine, staminibus 
fructu superstitibus, capsulis circiter 6-nis pedunculis iis sub- 
heimi suffultis supra spinas in fasciculos umbelliformes foliis 5-plo 
breviores e nodis Meet (fere uti in Caraganis nonnullis) ortis 
dispositis subturbinatis opaeis semipollicaribus trigonis trilocularibus 
valvis medio eee seminibus in loculis binis oblongis basi tantum 
arillo cinetis 
