SECT. II. APPENDAGES OF THE FLOWER. 1Q3 



There are also several other appendages that oc- Miscella- 

 casionally accompany the flower, fruit or seed, 

 less conspicuous perhaps, but not less worthy the 

 attention of the botanist, as furnishing him with 

 characters equally subservient to the purposes of 

 generic or specific discrimination, at least when 

 used with discretion.* Such is the pubescence of 

 the flower or fruit, and fine and wool -like hairs 

 which sometimes invest or attach to the seeds, as 

 in the case of Eriophorum and Scirpus, and which 

 are different in their origin and situation both from 

 the down and tuft, such as the prickles arming the 

 seeds of the genera Caucalis and Daucus, and the 

 gland-like substance situated near the scar of some 

 seeds, as in the genera Ulex and Spartium. 



* Lin. Trans, vol. x. p. 25. 



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