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vation. There is such rigid observance of the very minutest 
features in every other case that we can be absolutely sure 
which the artists had in hand. 
Steironema ciliatum L. exhibited most beautifully all the 
fine characteristics of that gamopetalous species. The cuspi- 
date-pointed, erose-denticulate corolla lobes, with stamens 
opposite these lobes, give the flowers a most natural appear- 
ance. Here, too, the varying age of the flowers is shown, 
from the tightly-closed bud to developing fruit. The ciliate 
petioles, a character to which the plant owes its specific name, 
are faithfully produced: The magnified stamen shows the 
ne granules on the filament, as they occur in the living plant. 
In the case of Aralia spinosa \.., the building up of the com- 
Plex inflorescence with its multitudinous minute flowers, is 
In this cluster, with its flowers so small 
we invisible Owing to the position of the leaf on the card. 
« €very specimen in the collection to be inverted, the 
heute work would ba coon. 
r 'S needless to multiply cases. It would be a continued 
“cord of what has 
Work as thi 
‘ nd ature’s works was deep. This love, combined 
eoualleg S skill, has produced a result never before 
that will n can: We sufficiently admire the conscience 
this Red. ae the slightest detail to be overlooked where 
tience Beka: might most naturally be expected, and the pa- 
there be litte the last flower as accurate as the first, though 
Each q ndreds on a single plant. 
®csne, sh f our common milkweed, Asclepias Cornutt 
fottyfou, “hi the interesting features of this genus. Icounted 
Owers, and thirty buds, and in each case there 
that every model is an exact copy of the fresh specimen _ 
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