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NATURAL HISTORY OB PLANTS. 



Australian. Adinodium is a Darwinia with tetramerous diploste-- 

 monous flowers and stamens not accompanied by sterile tongues. 

 Homoranthus, on the contrary, has these tongues in the intervals of 



Darwinia {GenetylUs) macrostegia. 



Fig. 307. Flower (f). 



Fig. 306. Inflorescence. 



Fig. 308. Long. sect, 

 of flower. 



its ten fertile stamens, for its flower is pentamerous, and in other 

 respects it is quite that of a Darwinia ; but the sepals are attenuated 

 at the summit to a long subulate point, as we shall find those of 



Verticordia. Brownii. 



Fig. 309. Flower (j). 



Fig. 310. Long. sect, of flower. 



Calythrix are ; and this character, which otherwise would be of the 

 smallest importance, has been thought sufficient here to distinguish 

 this quite artificial genus. In Verticordia (fig. 309, 310), everything 



