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like ours, and whose action is the same, except that the separation of the 
_ anthers was not produced by pressure on their tips, but by the irritation 
of the filaments near them. 
In the twenty-fourth volume of the Botanische Zeitung, for the year 
1866, on pages 129 and fo ollowing, is a narration, by Fritz Müller, 8f numer- 
ous and varied experiments made by him on a plant, which he calls Mar- 
_ tha fragrans, found on the island Santa Catarina, near the Brazilian coast, 
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to the tube of the flower, will very surely touch one of the fila- 
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