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NATURAL HI8T0EY OS PLANTS. 



Australian. Admodium is a Barwinia with tetramerous diploste- 

 monous flowers and stamens not accompanied by sterile tongues. 

 Eomoranthus, on tlie contrary, has these tongues in the intervals of 



Barwinia (fienetylUs) maerostegia. 



Fig. 307. Flower (?). 



Fig. 306. Inflorescence. 



Fig. 308. Long. sect. 

 of flower. 



its ten fertile stamens, for its flower is pentamerous, and ia other 

 respects it is quite that of a Barwinia ; but the sepals are attenuated 

 at the summit to a long subulate point, as we shall find those of 



Vertieordia Brownii. 



Fig. 309. Flower (j). 



Fig. 310. Long. sect, of flower. 



Calythrix are ; and this character, which otherwise would be of the 

 smallest importance, has been thought sufl&cient here to distinguish 

 this quite artificial genus. In Vertieordia (fig. 309, 310), everything 



