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a question, to sir during a space of twelve years, we have de- 
voted a chief interest, and for the ultimate results of which, we 
owe much to ibe te anticipating courtesy of European botanists to- 
wards the transatlantic student. Of this series we would give a 
detailed exposition in a later number. The series once > easabliabs 
ed, it was required to find an expression for the rhythmic re-occur- 
age of floral symmerism and eleutheromerism observable, and 
an ae ce (or form) for the recurrences of typical 
Autilia rally. 
In | oaptn our series into such natural divisions as all those, 
oug 
forth by the late Oken, inasmuch as as whorls of 
the antes wer—chalyce (chroa), corolla ( louis), ges or pol- 
ies (pneusis), Spent or seed-vessel (heuresis, acousis), 
and pore (focality, oculition )—seemed to be, preponderatingly, the 
type of the five large subdivisions of Dicotyledone here assumed 
Also, the medullary Cytembryons seem to develop the phases oO 
the seed—fovilla, nucleus, amnios, plumule, and germination; th 
fibrous Monocotyledons, the bud, by scales (pines), bulbs rh te 
palms),—seed, s 
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leaves hpoporen tbe and stalks (reeds, 
confirmation of a sor suggestion of his, rei Be he 
rather ‘railed i in realizing; correct hypothesis, a tathinvention," 28 
various suggestions offerin 
Banas divided into five files, ‘which, if 
