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EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. 



Fig. 1-6. Cuscuta Cephalanthi. — 1. A tetramerous ; 2, a pentame- 

 rous flower. 3. Corolla laid open. 4. The ovary. 5. Vertical sec- 

 tion of a half-grown capsule. 6. Capsule invested by the remains of 

 the corolla. 



Fig. 7-11. C.Coryli. — 7. A flower. 8. Corolla laid open. 9. Ova- 

 ry and styles. 10. Same of var. (?. 11. Capsule invested by the re- 

 mains of the corolla. 



Fig. 12-16. C.vulgivaga. — 12-14. Flowers. 15. Corolla laid open. 

 16. Ovary. 



Fig. 17-21. C. Saururi. — 17. The flower. 18. Corolla laid open, 

 with the inflexed scales. 19. Ovary. 20. Vertical section of the half- 

 grown capsule. 21. Mature capsule. 



Fig. 22-24. C. pentagona. — 22. Flower. 23. Corolla laid open. 

 24. Ovary. 



Fig. 25. C. verrucosa. — Flower, 



Fig. 26-29. C. Polygonorum. — 26. Flower. 27. Corolla laid open. 

 28. Ovary. 29. Capsule. 



Fig. 30-35. Lepidanche Compositarum. — 30. Flower of var. a. 

 31. Flower of var. §. 32. Corolla of §. laid open. 33. Ovary and 

 styles of var. a. 34. Same of 8. 35. Capsule. 



N. B. The flower represented in fig. 1, is a line in length ; all the 

 others are enlarged in the same proportion. 



Art. VII. — A Catalogue of the Mainmalia of Connecticut, ar- 

 ranged according to their natural families ; furnished for the 

 Yale Natural History Society, by Rev. James H. Linsley, Mem- 

 ber of the Conn. Acad, of Arts and Sciences, of the Yale Nat. 

 Hist. Soc, of the Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist., &c. 



Read before the Yale Natural History Society, April, 1842. 

 To THE Secretary of the Yale Natural History Society — 



3Iy dear Sir — At the request of several members of the Con- 

 necticut Academy, to furnish a catalogue of the class Mammalia 

 of this State, I take the liberty to present it to the Yale Natural 

 History Society, as falling more appropriately under their atten- 

 tion and direction. 



In order to avoid compiling a catalogue derived simply from 

 books, as has been too often done without any advantageous re- 

 sults, I have delayed presenting mine, in order to make myself 



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