to purple at the bottom, obovate, rounded and crenated at the top: the claw within besprinkled 
with short glands, Filaments pale yellow ; whether there is a melliferous gland at the external base 
of two or three of them as in L. Perenne, I could not ascertain in the single flower I dissected. Pe- 
ricarpium yellowish green while young, pubescent from above the middle. Styles 5, pubescent at 
AS RAS TORS SAAT ERT SOAS 
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REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1. One of the complete dissepiments, shewing the seed and short funiculus by which it is inserted, 
magnified. 2. One of the imperfect dissepiments split in_the middle, magnified. 3. Transverse 
section of the fruit near its top, shewing the central insertion of the seeds in 3 of the cells, magni« 
nified, 4. The same near the middle. - 
