1 12 SWARZ ON THE GENERA OF ORCHIDEiE, 



anther and resemble more the pollen of the gene- 

 rality of plants ; the microscope shows, however^ 

 that they consist of numberless transparent globules. 

 In the Epidendra, the masses consist of uniform, 

 round, fiattish bodies closely united, and covered 

 by a fine membrane; they may be divided, but all 

 their parts are upon a common pedicle- We find 

 eight of them in Limodorum Tankervillias ; four,- 

 or two pair upon one footstalk in aerides flor aeris, 

 &c ; Lepanthes cochlearifolia has but a single one 

 in its anther. 



Unless examined in a fresh state* one might.* 

 with regard to the last mentioned genera, think 

 with Gaertner, not indeed that each mass of 

 pollen, as he imagines, is an anther, but that these 

 masses are to be considered as solid. In his opi- 

 nion these supposed anthers are " ex uniformi sub' 

 itantia subcornea s. carnosa formats ." This is how- 

 ever not the case ; for they really consist of a 

 granulated substance, as may be easily seen by 

 help of water, and a magnifying glass. 



That these masses lie as it were loose, in 

 their proper cells, having at the same time the 



