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which is unfortunately far too expensive and bulky to have any 
circulation among foreign botanists. The conclusions I had come 
to became known to them only by abstracts contained in botani- 
cal journals or other compilations, unaccompanied by the observa- 
tions from whence they had been deduced; and my proposal for 
associating Arachis with Hedysaree has been more than once 
treated as absurd, without however any facts or arguments being 
brought forward in opposition. Recently again a writer in “Sil- 
liman’s American Journal,” Mr. Hugh M. Neisler, whose article 
‘1s reproduced in the last number of “ Taylor’s Annals of Natural 
History,” adduces some observations of his own in support of a 
denial of the existence of the two kinds of flowers in Arachis, 
although he also had not seen my paper, the details of which 
would probably have led him to perceive his mistake. At the 
time I wrote it I had only had dried specimens to examine, but 
these were numerous and good, belonging to several species of 
Arachis, and to about twenty species or marked varieties of Sty- 
anthes, | e si i 
appear several together, in short, close spikes, in the axille of the 
leaves. In the upper axilla, the barren but apparently perfect 
flowers are the most numerous; but even these are generally ac- 
companied by one or more of the minute fertile ones, and the lat- 
ter, which are always without calyx or corolla, become more nu- 
merous in the lower axilla. The withered perfect flowers re- 
main long sticking about the spike, and may sometimes be found 
apparently adhering to (but not connected with) the point of the 
fertilized ovary of the female flower, and borne along with it as its 
Stipes lengthens, as mentioned by Mr. Neisler; but I always find 
Within the tube of these withered flowers their own dried up, bar- 
fen ovary, with its unfertilized ovules, and if Mr. Neisler willcom- 
pare these barren ovaries with those of the female flowers before the 
ders, such as istinee, Violacee, Malpighiacee, etc. 
