mus, filiformis. Stigmata 3,1 laciniato- 
ita. Capsula minuta, calyce tec- 
ta, testaceo-cartilaginea, levigata, obscure 
pellucida, incomplete 3-locularis, v. demum 
l-locularis, ab apice ad basin loculicido- 
trivalvis (v. nonnunquam basi evalvis), 
abortu 3-sperma ; valve sepalis interiori- 
bus anteposite ! conniventes, persistentes, 
dissepimenta aut incomplete superstitia, 
tenerrima (ovulorum incremento mox a 
placentis disrupta) aut subcartilaginea per- 
sistentia; placente 3 subcentrales, persis- 
tentes, demum libere, subcrustacee, tenu- 
Nine, fragiles, subrotunde, subcondupli- 
ule semen unicum amplectentes, 
ovulo abortivo hinc superstite. Semina 
minuta, valvis subæquilonga, ovato-tri- 
gona (facie angulata, dorso convexa) lævi- 
obscure pellucida, arrecta, ortho- 
tropa, ad basin faciei posterioris cujusvis 
placente funiculo brevi Mai adscen- 
. We conceive Dr. Lind 
are not provided with multipartite, or totally distinct, 
having a stigma com 
posed of plicate or fim 
briolated fleshy crests; these crests are sometimes 
: acente. Several promoters of imaginary 
ies have asserted, that styles or stigmas — 
QI the placent (or, to use a more appro 
in axile relation ‘a the pl 
"dun sue p iiey v were p be 
, tO use a 
econopsis, whereas in Crucifere 
several 
ege (viz. Hesperis, Malcolmia, Matthiola, 
ked, that the style of these 
Moris been mistaken for true 
equally in error with 
*y seems almost 
ents concernin ng what he con- 
r statem 
are far from hein ng 
"in æstivation, neither are they always 
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dente affixa, decidua ; integumentum tenue, 
crustaceum ; micropy us terminalis, vix 
conspicuus ; hilum cum chalaza in areolam 
arvam basilarem confluens, perispermium 
corneum; embryo axilis, antitropus, recti- 
lineus v. subrectilineus, perispermio sub- 
equilongus ; cotyledones planiuscule, sub- 
foliacee, elliptice, fere equilate ; radicula 
recta v. $i —À »- omm 
obtusa, 
ticuli, sepe surculis radicalibus decumbes: 
tibus gaudentes aut æ. Folia ezst- 
pulata, integerrima, rd petiolata : in- 
feriora verticillata v. opposita; cetera 
sparsa. Ramuli floriferi axillares v. sub- 
terminales. simplicissimi, v. bifurcati, v. 
paniculati, nudi, v. bracteolati ; pedicelli 
in racemulos sepissime unilaterales dispo- 
siti, v. rarius fasciculati, aut paniculati, 
post ünthesin erecti v. raro horizontales. 
Flores minimi, copiosissimt. 
ees nor in quinary number. A strictly definite 
of stamens is found in Lechea, Lechidium, Tæ- 
A j . 
conseqnently not inverted e os) are met with in 
Cistacee, tions »- less eqn y than hentai 
pous ovules: 
situated on the true apex of the o sube. Itisn e ine 
io understand what is meant by ** rdg with the for- 
if this signifies the apex with 
respect to the pericarp, it is inapplicable to the vari- 
ous Cistacee with inverted ovules. Equally erroneous 
s it to describe the capsule as ** either one-celled, 
e gc plscente, or imperfeotly hs or ten- 
iddle 
of Hs valves, and touching each other i in the centre,” 
there being many species with imperfectly esee 
ed capsules, whose placentas never touch 0! 
in the centre, either before or after la 
id of Androsemum, and a g 
pte is as often corneous. 
d perispermous seeds, upon which are 
characters, might seem a very slight link for nd 
ing sath ime aaa aen whose s 
character wea iiid by the 
nearly iid: pare of Elatine Hydropiper, Reich.), 
, Hugoniacee, Chlenacea, Cistacea, and Reau- 
mon 
