kill/., i 



be Pound thai the baira in which the fruits are imbedded present a r< 

 able analog; with the paraphyses of Drepanophyllum and certain No k. 

 and also with bodies which he suspected to be the mal< 

 Surelj this is a class of peculiarities which should indicate 

 lank tlian E socens or Bndosens. 



Dr. Booker, without adopting Griffith's views, is .if ..pinion, after a i 

 minute examination of Balanophorads, that that order at least 1. 

 to be separated from ExogenB, but that it ha- a plain affinity to 

 In order that the arguments adduced in Bupport of this view ,,: a •. 

 difficult question maj be exactly Btated, J bave r< ted my acute friend, 

 who has had ample opportunities of examining Balanophorads, to i.:\..ur 

 in.' with his own statement ; an. I tiic reader will find it in the buc< 

 page. 



There is mi account of Rhizogens by Endlicher in his J/. /< '. mala, which 

 contains a Bummary of all that was in 1832 known concerning tl • 

 For further information the reader is referred to Blun .hiv> \ 



Marti i- Nova Genera, <kc., vol. 3 ; Brown 'b Observai i, in 



the L8thand L9th volumes of the Linnean - TV. 



in the Proceedings of the same learned body, the various worl - 

 the head of the following natural orders, and in a note by Dr. Hooker uj.on 

 Cynomorium in ]V,b!,'s Uis(,>irr Suturd!,- <lr.< Cmarii iii. 131. 



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