HILGARD——NATURAL SERIES. 151 
here than elsewhere. In Nyctaginee we have the rigid tubu- 
lar calyx of Liquidambar, in whose neighborhood perhaps Da- 
tisea, with its open carpels, likewise might be referable. In 
itanus we have the orblonlete, leaf-like stipule of Polygo- 
num orientale and Salix species; in Liquidambar, a valvate 
armous capsule. With Platanee Artocarpee most close- 
y sonhivet, which are known to merge into Moree, Urticee, 
and Ficine; and the latter, by total and especial resemblance, 
often mentioned by authors, merge into ‘the fleshy cupulifer- 
ous forms of Egg apes preeeneng, “a sagt cacton invo- 
lucrate ae somatic aa 
% inuate- 
of Q. Sa or a ni Black Pisie to 
the a lanceolate, serrulate one oe ahs by uk of 
tepetition. Perhaps, in a certain sense, Artocarpee and ad 
on generally, by their P aia integuments eae , may be 
aimed ous forms, but o: an aggre- 
gated, “geared yom condition, the other con- 
ae as mostl ReRy eons. 
the 01 [and no longer cupulate forms of papborbie: 
#, such ae Crotomens have maseh resemblance to Santalace 
reine, 
: ‘Bartley as by. eke TMs as 
nnoides strongly eof r genes 
fully tenable on t on the evidence of of such pe 
: = Phyo which night he almost as 
