APPENDIX. 
fpecimeiis of all the plants we are about to defcribe in this 
work. Dr. Gaertner^ in his admirable book on fruits and 
feeds, has ifigured the fruit of feveral Bankfias^ fome of them 
defcribed by Linnceus, Having had his plates, with the 
names, engraved before he faw the Supplementmn of Linnceusj 
his nomenclature differs from that of the laft mentioned 
author; but he quotes his fynonyms in the letter prefs. 
We mention this, that he may not be accufed of waiztonly 
changing Liin72ceun names, and that for the worfe, as it 
would appear to any one uninformed of this circumftance. 
The charadler of the genus is very badly made out in 
Linn<^us, Gaertner has greatly corrected it, but it is ftill 
a doubt whether the flowers are conftantly monofetalous or 
tetrapetalous^ nor have we materials fufficient to remore 
this difficulty. All we can fay is, that Bankfia is next in 
natural arrangement to Protea^ from which it is effentially 
diftinguiflied by having an hard woody bivalve capfule, 
Gontaini-ng two winged feeds, with a moveable membranous 
partition between them. It is ftrangely mifplaced in 
Murray^ 14th edition of Syjlema Vegetabiliuiny being put 
between Ltidwigia and Oldenlandia! 
Mr. White has fent imperfed fpecimens and feeds of 
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