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luded to (Flinders's Voy., 2, p. 557), as in some degree explai- 

 ning the real structure ofEuphorbia, and from the consideration 

 of which also it seems probable that what was formerly descri- 

 bed as the hermaphrodite flower of that genus, is in reality a 

 compound fasciculus of flowers. 44 



Endelig findes en nærmere Udvikling af Browns Anskuelser 

 1818 i „Transactions of the Linnean Society«, Vol. XII, S. 99. 

 Her hedder det: „I have formerly observed, that in a few cases 

 the footstalk of the ovarium is dilated and obscurely lobed at 

 top: but in the species now referred to it terminates in three 

 distinct and equal lobes of considerable length, and which bcing 

 regularly opposite to the cells of the capsule may be compared 

 to the three outer foliola of the perianthium of Phyllanthus , be- 

 tween which and the cells of the capsule the same relation ex- 

 ists. This calyx is most remarkable in an undescribed species 

 of Euphorbia from the coast of Patagonia, in the Herbarium of 



Ligeledes hedder det sammesteds: „We have already, however, 

 I believe, sufficient evidence that this supposed hermaphrodite 

 flower is in reality formed of several monandrous male flowers 

 surrounding a single female. In conformity with this view of 

 its composition, and with the relation above attempted to be 

 established , the development of the pistillum precedes that of 



to determine whether this order of expansion and relative posi- 



be considered as analogous either to the simple spike, and con- 

 sequently having an inverted order of expansion, as in Allium 

 descendent , and certain species of Grevillea and Anademia: or it 

 may be assimilated to the compound spike, as in several species 



