218 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
bract being a contracted leaf, the calyx and corolla a combination 
of several, the stamens, contracted and coloured leaves in a state 
of disintegration, and the pistil, leaves rolled up according to certai 
laws. 
These views of the poet met at first with little attention from 
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Fig. 294.—Robert Brown. 
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botanists, and we are chiefly indebted to Robert Brown for ~ 
elucidation of Goethe’s theory. In his “ Prodromus of the ¥ ee 
of New Holland,” and in many papers in the Philosophical ‘‘ 
Linnean Transactions, he demonstrates its truth as well as * 
