446 ON THE BUXBAUMIA APHYLLA. 



from, and never succeeded in finding another : of 

 the kind last described he saw several. These 

 little objects are so minute, that they may be easily 

 overlooked, even when under the microscope, from 

 the well-known difficulty of managing that instru- 

 ment when high powers are used. 



In Hedwig's * highly magnified section of the 

 capsule of Euocbaumia, the little pillar or duct be- 

 tween the small globe and seminal bag, is repre- 

 sented as curved. This was also the case in the 

 capsule of which I have given a section, (fig. 6.). 

 In the young capsule, (fig. 7.) this duct is straight, 

 as is also the seminal bag ; but as the latter en- 

 larges, and in some degree follows the oblique di- 

 rection of the capsule, the duct necessarily becomes 

 curved in the direction of the gibbous portion of 

 the capsule. In making the dissection given at 

 fig. 6., I was so fortunate as to divide the little 

 globe, the cervix or little column which supports 

 it, and a part of the duct ; these are evidently hol- 

 low, and communicate with each other. The 

 cervix above mentioned is connected with the sides 

 of the apophysis, by numerous fibrillar, which, to- 

 wards the little globe, graduate into a spongy or 

 cellulose texture, forming a sort of delicate septum, 

 between the capsule and apophysis. This is much 

 too strongly marked in the figure borrowed from 



* Fundament. Hist. Nat. Muse. Frond. Pars n. t. 3. 

 f. 10. 



