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belioids; by the amply campanulate corollas, the trimerous, 
delicate capsule, the —— placentas and piles Sie seed, as 
well as acrid, milky juices, and habit generally, the peponif- 
erous type is introdu pal 
The connecting link between Lobelio-Campanuline and 
Cucurbitacee is no doubt effected by Columelliacee, on a 
campanulaceous trunk and capsule bearing the deeply-lobed 
corolla and gyrate antheral margins of Cucurbitacee, the two 
stamina recalling “Btylidee. Canarina, of Campanulacee, aes 
its ample ochraceous corolla, its” iancaleeits venous vine, 
eucurbitaceous tendrils, gives alone sufficient evidence of this 
connection, conceived by Oken likewise. 
es sn nig Met Papayacex, and Cucurbitacee, in 
nuciferous G a we arrive at a resolution of the epigyn- 
Pott peponiferous forms, * petigynously continued in 
Of all the e igynous passa; the one just considered is no 
doubt oes — in = Sen and relations. Its 
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