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I will call this part, remain united at base, separating the fan- 
nel-shaped intrastylar aperture from the interior cavity of the 
capsule, and therefore can not give egress to the seeds, as has 
_ erroneously stated. ae is, I believe, the case with 
or all American Cuscute (Grammica). In 
oa istigma the ‘iconetyoe ar aperture doe s communicate 
with the on of the capsule, but the opening is fr too a 
to let the seeds out; nor would this be necessary, as a find 
them the e capsule i is ‘circumacisaile. In some few rere 
each stylar — of the dissepiment divided into pee ; 
in C. ; ese halves are widely distant from m 
‘nsothor and adhets to the opposite halves, so as to fem 
eee e transve red tose neg e 
In Monogynella and Callianche, where thes 
there i is, of course, no intrastylar opening, 
the entire dissepiment remains in the bottom 
in the latter, a small triangular stylar portion “we os 
top of the capsule, but, of a without any opening: _ 
, oulins was the first, in « Etudes", ) to cod a 
- smooth and roundish umbilicus, , is th 
or oe narrower or broader linear — 
