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I shall now attend to the general appearance and description of the 

 plants, so as to found our discrimination on other points, which will 

 settle the matter for the future. 



Mr. Ball has given an elaborate Latin description of our three allied 

 species of ffinanthe in the ' Annals of Natural History,' but there are 



o. Fruit, natural size. 



CEuanthe Lachenalii. 

 6. The same magnified. 



c. The root, natural size. 



some important omissions, and the differences between each are not so 

 clearly contrasted as to remain fixed upon the mind. But he had not 

 then seen the root of CE. Lachenalii, and considers the disposition and 



