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homologous. 0 Sea ne relation to the other parts of the 
flower, the seta or prolonge n Graminee is outside the pale, in 
Carex inside the perigynium. ern de ed, it is probable that Graminew 
and Cyperacee are much less closely related than is generally supposed, 
and — be regarded as reductions of very different types of Endogens. 
or ate ae glume to be formed of one oo ; for two opposite scales 
a derangement of the o 
course of change from the alternative vabeiitive organs to the opposite 
or whorled floral organs, which is believed to have no example at least 
in Monocotyledons. Ifthe perigynium is formed of two scales they 
must belong to the floral whorls. They are not subtending bracts 
analogous to the two free bracts of Diplacrum, or the united ones of 
and the perigynium is within one outer subtending glume. That they 
are two out of three parts” of a real perianth is rendered improbable 
by thei in an order where it is in all other 
vewerid J eappremed or rudimenta ; ;, and without any trace of it in the 
other sex. The only remaining i, is en the perigynium and 
a. The position with relation to ‘the axis and subtending 
glume i is the same, and although they are very different in form an 
ae that difference is s much diminished i in Uncinia ih 40h where 
e dilated filaments of th of the perigy- 
sii of the females. The lobes of the perigynium in Carex subaleti and 
occasionally in some Uneinia, have the look of the seta of Uncinia, and 
in one instance that seta bore a perfect anther. Brown confirmed his 
nl of the perianth-nature of the perigynium by a specimen of Carex 
with stamens within the Lahore This is figured in Boott’s 
aan 551, and an examination of beautiful specimens gathered by Mr. 
pe rai in Yorkshire shows, from the position and structure of the 
stamen-bearing perigynia, that they are altered female flowers in 
which more or less im imperfect stamens replace the carpellary leaves 
of which the pistil is formed. If this: homology of the eit ail 
phium, and of those species of ‘Carex in w e seta is ail 
a a of the forms delineated in the late Boott’s 
ustrations of the genus special study of the 
Sache themselves, and it is hoped that intanists used to micro- 
scopical inv tion turn their attention to these disputed points 
y an examination of the parts in thei i ges, —Dr. Hooker 
* A reduced figure of this cone is given in the “ Gurdoners’ Chronicle ” for 
March 15th. 
