stion puts it out of the power of naturalists in general to have recourse 
to them. The necessity for their publication may be considered as still 
less, now that engravings of this species have appeared in the Botanical 
ine and Botanical Register. These were given to the world 
since my drawings had been executed ; but these last seem to me to con- 
tain more important analyses of the parts of fructification than either of 
the excellent works now mentioned. : 
The ot of the column of fructification, which is perhaps more 
ident i individual of the genus than in any other, is a well known 
circumstance. It is bent, as Mr Brown describes it, “ duplici flexura ;” 
or, in the words of Sir James Smuru, it is “ curved, and recurved ;” 
if this column be touched ever so slightly, or if any part of it be 
ith the finger, it immediately starts over to the other side of 
the flower, and is supposed, by this process, to scatter the pollen from 
the stigma. 
sti 
The genus Stylidium was first established by Swartz; but Sir 
time communicating specimens to the Swedish Professor and to Lasit- 
LARDIERE. It is now universally adopted, although the latter author, 
in a memoir in the Annales du Muséum @ Histoire Naturelle, called the 
genus Decandollea; and Smiru himself, in Exotic Botany, published 
er 
on the one hand, and Goodenovie on the other, differin : 
mer in its * reduced number of stamens, and the remarkable and inti- 
mate adhesion of their filaments with the style, through the whole length 
ef both organs ;” and from the latter, (as also from Campanulacea), “in 
nature irregularity. 
It is curious that Rrcmarp, and filawieg him Jussieu, should have 
the dabellum of Brown as stigma; and as such have 
peg and described it in the 18th volume of the Annales du Mu- 
a ; 
a no les ber 45 species of Stylidiwm described in 
the Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. only two satan to the nature of shrubs, 
one of which is our S. laricifolium (8. tenuifolium, Brown). It is, 
like nearly all the others, an inhabitant of the neighbourhood of Port 
Jackson, and is readily culti in a mixture of loam and peat-earth, 
creasing by cuttings, and proving a great ornament to the greenhouse, 
as it flowers in the early part of spring 
Fig. 1. Portion of a 
Fig. 3. Side vi 
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oe : “heir pollen ; the stigm uded. Fig. 10. Pollen. 
