XXV EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Fig. 8. Interior peristomium of the same plant, (117.) 



9. Capsule of Aspidium spinulosum Sw. with its notch- 

 ed ring and rough seeds, (117.) 



10. Indusium of the same Fern, fringed on the margin 



and studded with glands, (88.) 



11. Flowers of Aponogeton distachys Thunb. Appen- 



dages for the petals, (90.) Heptandria. 



12. Flowers of Chironiafrutescens, Stamina perigyna, 



(35.) Corolla infera ; germen superum, (34.) 



13. Twisted antherge of the same plant, (41.) 



14. Phylica ericoides ; folia sparsa, revoluta, sessilia, lan- 



ceolate. Flores fasciculati, (29, 38, 40, 44, 84.) 



15. Calyx coroUina of the same plant, ciliated (51, 90.), 



the antherse under nectarilymata^ (lOS.) These 

 scales may also be called petals. The filaments 

 are united with the calyx corollina, (191, 192.) 



16. Urceolate corolla of Arbutus unedo, (31.) 



17. Bilocular antherae of the same plant with spurs. 



The filaments ciliated, (334.) 



18. Oxalis purpurea Jacqu. The pistilla are shorter 



than the interior, but longer than the exterior fila- 

 ments, (380.) 



19. Oxalis macrostylis Jacqu. The pistilla are longer 



than the exterior and interior filaments. The ex- 

 terior filaments are always shorter than the inte- 

 rior, (203, 205, 380.) 



20. Five pistilla, having their extremities set with stig- 



mata, and their lower parts with glands. Perhaps 

 the collectores, (341.) Connate ovaria of Oxalis 

 macrostylis, (107, 189.) 



21 . Flowers of Agathosma puhescens Willd. Beside the 



five principal petals are five subordinate fringed 

 bodies, — abortive filaments. Of the five filaments, 

 three are higher than the two others, (175, 185, 

 203, 205.) 



22. Similar abortive filaments. 



25. Veiled stigma of Lobelia discolor, (106.) The an- 



