GYNAXDRIA. 355 



wrote to Haller, that " finding Linnaeus deaf to all 

 that had been said, he sent him his treatise, to see 

 whether he would persist in falsifying nature." Thus 

 sordid underlings foment the animosities and flatter 

 the failings of their superiors! Linnaeus judiciously 

 suspended his opinion, and, after all, proves to be 

 most correct. The analogies of the Orchidece and 

 ScitaminecR very clearly decide that the two cells, 

 or the double masses of naked pollen, can only be 

 considered as one anther of two lobes. Periploca 

 grccca confirms this. Each lobe of its anthers 

 stands, as in many Scitaminea* on the outermost 

 edge of the filament ; thus meeting that on the ad- 

 joining filament, and in appearance constituting with 

 it a two-lobed anther, as the lobe of the Scitaminece, 

 where there is but one filament, meets its corre- 

 sponding lobe by embracing the style. 



6. Hexandrla. Aristolochia, Engl. Bot. t. 398, a 

 curious genus, of which there are many exotic spe- 

 cies, is the only example of this, Pistia being re- 

 moved to Monadclphia Octandria. 



7. Octandria. The Scopolia of Linnaeus, which 

 originally constituted this Order, proves to be a 

 Daphne ; see Plant. Ic. e.r Herb. Linn. t. 34. 

 Cytinus however, Cavan. Ic. t~ 171, a singular 

 parasitical plant on the roots of Cistus in the south 

 of Europe, has properly been brought hither from 

 the Order Dodecandria, of which it originally 



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