422 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
their gemmal structure is that of the Moss type; the power 
fully erectile injected corolla is branchial, and its ‘aqueom 
structure is that of Algae, the “flowers of the sea” ; head 
, as fermen 
tive cell, of Organic life. The fourth is the wpa vesical 
or capsule, a ry and ocellated as Lichens; and the 
or seed-cycle, in the convolute seed and circinate stigma, re- 
calls the lobed and cireinately convolute Fern as well a 
etuses. 
The quinal number and successive alternation and conse- 
quent coincidence of each two post-proximal cycles are beat- 
tifully illustrated in a delicate cross section of the apple, the 
“Rose become Flesh,” as it were. No longer in a florib 
state, with the floral organs still visible at the apical cor 
onet, the apple presents a central morning-star of five caps 
lar sone enclosing a hades rt ots, or seed within, and 
t b 
petile’s , ie Ssabedded, y rat a rays, a turban’d bunch of 
tuberously crescented antheral bases, ee _ the not 
sides i8 issuing into the calycine lobes of the co 
A similar quinal arrangement, alternation, iid i fumetions 
qualified above, we find in the epidiaphragmatic fabric - 
bust of vertebrates, condensed in the fish-head. ‘The we 
proboscidal, buccal, and mammal Jobes are known to gr 
ually converge and close up into the nos ostrils and m ‘0 
apical coronet of this Lom sone If incomplete, ti the 
strosity of the hare-lip. a fissure between the | 
scidal and buceal lo *) ee a eibee side, ae 
"In each of the primordial nore — ape 
as many “branchi av or mucose m ; 
pr the buceal one in the nectar or mee. 
dev oy fae 
th 1e acoustic eres; mere ee cor 
iol “otolithes the bins contains the serum an roe 
