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accumulated from recent researches, since the publication of 

 her article in the "Botanical Gazette," and the discovery of 

 saponin in many plants of widely different genera and family, 

 seem to justify and confirm what was stated in the article 

 referred to above, "saponin is invariably absent where the 

 floral elements are simple; it is invariably absent where the 

 floral elements are condensed to their greatest extent. Its 

 position is plainly that of a factor in the great middle realm 

 of plant life when the elements of the individual are striving 

 to condense, and thus increase their physiological action and 

 the economy of parts." 1 



1 Loc. cit., Botanical Gazette. 



