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Compositse.^ It appears also that he is not aware of any 

 exception to it in the class. I have however, in a different 

 part of the same essay, noticed one exception existing in 

 Chuquiraga, and I have since found another in Corymhium. 

 In both these genera the aestivation is in duplicate, that is, 

 the margins of the segments are doubled in, so that in the 

 unexpanded state none of them are visible. I have in the 

 passage referred to observed that the valvular and indu- m 

 plicate modes of aestivation easily pass into each other, 

 merely by an addition or abstraction of the elevated mar- 

 gins of the lacinise : instances of their abstraction, and of 

 the consequent conversion of the induplicate into the val- 

 vular mode, occur in several Goodenovise, and in some 

 Convolvulacese and Solanacese ; while Cliuqviraga and Co- 

 rymhium are examples of their addition in an order where 

 they are generally wanting. 



My third remark is entirely borrowed from Schkuhr,^ 

 who states that in all Cichoracea or Ligulatse the pollen is 



' Since this paper was read, M. Cassini has published his memoir (in the 

 Journal de Physique for February 1816), in which he states the same aestiva- 

 tion to exist in certain other families, namely, Campanulaoese, Lobeliaoese, and 

 B-ubiaoeee. This observation, if applied to the whole of these famihes, as is 

 evidently the author's intention, is correct only with respect to Campanulacese, 

 from which I have separated Stylidese as a distinct order, partly, as I have 

 stated, on account of its imbricate aestivation. In a considerable part of the 

 Lobeliaceae of Jussieu, which includes my Goodenovise, the sestivation is not 

 valvular but induplicate : and though in Rubiaoese the valvular mode is very 

 general, there are many remarkable exceptions to it, as Gardenia, Ixora, Pavetta, 

 Coffea, and several other genera, where it is unilaterally and obhquely imbricate, 

 as in most of the Apocinese, with which Linnaeus united them under the name 

 of Contortse, derived from this very circumstance. On this subject I may be 

 allowed further to remark, that M. Cassini, who in the memoir now cited has 

 repeatedly asserted his claim to the priority of the observation on the disposi- 

 tion of vessels in the corolla, has in treating of its sestivation omitted to notice 

 what had been already published respecting it in my essay above quoted, where 

 I conclude he must have seen my observation, as he refers to the sentence con- 

 taining it. The aestivation of corolla in Compositae is also noticed in the ob- 

 servations on Brunonia, contained in my Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, 

 which I suppose he has not seen : I may therefore, for the general importance 

 of aestivation of calyx and corolla in affording characters both for Orders and 

 Genera, refer him to almost every page of the same work, and to its preface, 

 for an observation on the degree of attention that had been previously paid to 

 this point of structure, which will enable him to correct in some measure his 

 own remark on the subject. 

 = Botamsches Handbuch 3, p. 8. 



