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two-lobed at the point, ten stamens growing from 

 beneath the pistil, and of a superior ovary (Jig. 9..). 

 The anthers are covered over with little glittering 

 glands. The ovary has a depressed form, something 

 like that of an old German wine-bottle (jig. 4.) ; it 

 contains but one cell, in the very bottom of which are 

 two flat placentae (jig. ().), fi'om which a great number 

 of ovules grow erect ; it gradually tapers into a green 

 column of a style, the point of which is split into a 

 ring of fringes (jig. 4. & 5.), and forms a stigma. The 

 seed-vessel is a small flask-shaped capsule (jig. 8.), 

 closely covered over by the calyx, and remains of 

 the corolla. It contains a considerable number of 

 black, oblong seeds, that are discharged only after 

 the decay of the seed-vessel, which has no means of 

 spontaneously opening. The seeds have a con- 

 spicuous raphe (jig. 9- & 10. «.) and chalaza (jig. 9. 

 & 10. b.), and contain a kernel enveloped in a soft 

 spong\' substance (jig. 11. a.). The kernel is princi- 

 pally composed of albumen, the embryo (jig. V2. c. & 

 13.) being a very small two-lobed bodv. 



Upon comparing this with the structure of the Sun- 

 dew, it must be obvious to you, that the number of 

 points of identity is extremely numerous, and that, in 

 reality, the most important differences consist in the 

 number of stamens being greater in Diona^a, there 

 being but two placentae, and those arising from the 

 base of the capsule, the seed-vessel not bursting, the 

 seeds not having a loose integument, the stigma not 

 having twice as many lobes as placentae, and the leaves 

 being destitute of stipulary fringes upon their stalks. 



