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itis not the corpuscle or vesicle contiguous to the pollen-tube, but a second 
searches, .G. 
3. Bentham, Notes on Loganiacee, (in Journal of the Proceedings of 
the Linnean Society, No. 2.)—A most judicious and thorough revision 
; of this group of Rubiacee with a free ovary, or “a sort of artificial offset 
from that family,” which it becomes necessary in practice to separate. 
We cite a portion of the introductory remarks, for the special benefit of 
hose who maintain that families, genera, d&ec., are as really and strictly 
limited in nature as they are in our systems, i. e., when our systems are as 
Perfect as they practically can be. 
“Our natural orders, with all the improvements they have received 
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me one or two which may offer an exceptional character 
OF anomalous structure, indicating some slight approach to other groups, 
Yes we cannot have the least hesitation as to where to draw the line of 
de tion, The Himalayan Megacarpeas, although polyandrous, are 
_ Still decidedly Cruciferous, not Capparideous. The distinction between 
ugh Copaifera and Connarus be really more gradual, 
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